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Baker reported to trainning camp with a sprained ankle, and yesterday ran gamely, but limply. Stempson infected his toe the day before the meet and couldn't compete. On top of that, Dick Howe, who was figured to be in the top three for Harvard, came up with a stitch in his side halfway through the race and finished on guts alone...
...hungry girls against a trio of loutish army Lotharios. One furtively removes his wedding ring, only to see it go spinning crazily off among the dancing feet. In an endearing seduction scene that avoids nearly every nudenik movie cliché, the shy blonde hasn't a stitch on by the time she reproachfully tells her playboy-pianist: "I don't trust you." He, in turn, observes boyish discretion by bounding up at intervals to tussle with a window shade that lets in too much light. The sly tone is sustained through a dormitory matron's wonderfully irrelevant...
...complex that only a compromise covering most of them in one package seemed likely to cut through the tangle. But at last all the Common Market members were now willing to make the effort. The EEC ministers agreed to meet four more times within five weeks, hoping to stitch that big package together by July or August...
...last week a new Bobby Hull was sporting a 15-stitch gash on his forehead -souvenir of a brawl with New York Defenseman Jim Neilson. He already had spent 49 min. in the penalty box, and the Chicago Black Hawks, who have never won an N.H.L. championship, were leading the league by 1½ games over Montreal. "Something was bound to blow," exulted Coach Reay. "Bobby had to do something to protect himself...
...ballet-cantata" based on George Gershwin's music and billed as "a great moment in Italo-American collaboration." After opening night, the bemused Milanese had another name for it: "La Scala Follies." The critics had some complaints, some major (Director Maner Lualdi's failure to stitch the kaleidoscopic scenes into a visual and dramatic whole), and some minor ("How can one stage a 1910 New Orleans dance palace without calling in a single colored face...