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...orchestra. Others may have been more creative, hard-driving or distinctive, but, all around, Dorsey's band "could do more things better than any other." At one time or another, it featured such talents as Drummer Buddy Rich and Trumpeter Bunny Berigan, Singers Frank Sinatra and Jo Stafford, Arrangers Paul Weston and Sy Oliver-and, always, the warm, silken trombone of T.D. himself, from whom Sinatra learned most of what he knows about breathing and phrasing...
Princeton captain Al Andreini crossed the line third and fellow Tiger Eamon Downey followed him closely in fourth. Fifth was Yale's Steve Bittner and sixth Princeton's Richard Stafford. Baker finished, giving Coach Bill McCurdy reason to breathe again and then in a wondrous Crimson avalanche, junior Tim McLoone, senior Dick Howe and sophomore John Heyburn streaked home...
Princeton has two proven runners, captain Al Andreini and Tilden Reeder, and a couple of improving sophomores, Rich Stafford and Eamon Downey. But, unlike Harvard, the Tigers don't have much beyond their first...
...Brain. The Smith-Rusk marriage is like none of these: it resembles more closely the 1953 wedding of another Margaret known as Peggy, the daughter of Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain's onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer. His Peggy wed Joseph Appiah, son of an Ashanti chief and now a legal adviser to the Ghanian government. Britain took it without hysteria...
...Street in Nassau. There is little doubt that Sir Stafford, who returned voluntarily to face the commission, will be able to hang on to his money, and no assurance at all that the islands have seen the last of his political cronies. Last week, in a special election to fill the spot Sir Stafford gave up in the General Assembly, his United Bahamian Party hung on to his seat by the simple expedient of running a Negro. Clearly, the party, if not the man, still has considerable power. "The Bahamians need us," said a smug Bahamian Club croupier. "Tourism couldn...