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Wilson is especially proud of his crack mile relay team, which placed second in the K. of C. Meet recently. He feels that they would have placed first, except for the fact that anchor man Wharton was unable to regain his stride after being knocked off balance attempting to pass Brown's anchorman, John Connor. They did, however, beat a highly regarded Yale freshman relay team...
...callers at Washington receptions. One denizen of the social world once said to her: "Oh Evie, somebody told me you had a piece about me today. We don't take the News, but my servants do. Would you send the column to me?" Evie takes such jibes in stride. Says she: "My readers are janitors and cab drivers and ambassadors and Cabinet members' wives. What the hell, if I have a back-door public I don't care. As long as people like my own cook read me, I guess I don't have to worry...
...mile, and two-mile events were runaways for the Terriers' Bill "Wee Willie" Smith and John Kelly, who romped away in the final laps. Dave Alpers and Renny Little did manage to pace Smith stride for stride in the 1000 until Smith's stamina prevailed...
Even better was the Debussy Sonata No. 3. Playing like a professional, Miss Colish took the tricky rhythms in her stride and exhibited a rich, livid tone that had been absent earlier in the evening. Skillful modulation of phrasing and dynamics, ranging from sudden bold contrasts to the subtlest of nuances, helped to make the sonata a glowing and multicolored organism...
...stock market took the new cutbacks in stride. The announcement of the reductions came while the market was starting to recover, after a wave of heavy selling had tumbled the Dow-Jones industrials to 255.5, their lowest levels in 26 months. Nevertheless, the market kept on climbing, and ended the week just about where it had begun...