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Even without the impetus of competition, captain Art Croasdale and junior Chris Pardee came up with stellar performances. Croasdale threw the 35-lb, weight 57 ft., 7 in.--three inches farther than his winning performance against Army last Saturday...
...soldiers disguise themselves as Armenians, or something, and try to seduce each other's girl. After a longish time which passes quickly with this stellar cast, they execute the scheme successfully. Alas! Traiterous, damned women! No, not really, because Mozart was really worried about his wife while he was writing this opera (some say she was the biggest attraction for visiting firemen in Baden toward the end of the eighteenth century) but Mozart loved her. So the troupe with a wonderfully contagious stoicism, sings, "Happy is the man who takes everything as it comes...
This year Coach Bill Brooks has one of the best balanced teams ever to swim at Harvard, but he will have to depend heavily on sophomores to improved on last year's record of six wins and four losses. In virtually every event the Crimson has at least one stellar performer, four of five of whom are sophomores. Already in excellent shape, the team might well win back its traditional position of being second only to Yale in the East...
They had little success, as shown by this morning's contest. Led by the passing of Grant "The Ooge" Ujifuss, and the stellar defensive performance of Ben "the All American Kid" Heineman, the CRIMSON jumped off to an early lead and kept on going...
...works by 45 British and American poets, a revised and reengineered version of their original readings for the Library of Congress. The album's theme, Williams explains, is suffering and social involvement-"the passion of modern poetry"-rather than personal love. The selection is personal, sometimes questionable, but stellar nonetheless. It includes T. S. Eliot, Robert Lowell, W. H. Auden, Conrad Aiken, Robert Graves and Archibald MacLeish, plus many others whose voices will not be heard again, notably William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Theodore Roethke, E. E. Cummings. Robert Frost sounds as homey as a neighbor chatting...