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...narrow defeat came as a bitter pill to swallow for the linksters who were favorites to wrest the Greater Boston crown from the defending Eagles, having won the tournament for 15 straight years prior to last season. Individual Scoring Harvard B.C. Jim Dales 82 74 156 Dave Magdalenski 75 75 150 Dave Paxton 75 82 157 John McCann 73 80 153 Alex Vik 83 75 158 Danny Curtis 81 76 157 Spence Fitzgibbons 77 82 159 Joe McBournie 86 80 166 George Arnold 84 83 167 Jack Callahan 83 84 167 Total 798 Total...
...linksmen had to swallow a disappointing third place finish as a team behind Princeton and Yale. Harvard came into the clubhouse after first round action trailing the Elis by a mere stroke and two strokes ahead of the Tigers. Fighting mounting gusts over the 6,317 yard layout in East Providence, the linksters' scores spiraled in the afternoon, as they finished with an aggregate score of 620, nine strokes back of Princeton...
...lots of children of their own, even by the most fecund Celtic standards. (Al Smith, a fine Irish buddy of the clan whose only flaw was his persistent habit of losing the presidency, would not even swim in the family's well-populated swimming pool: "I might swallow a baby," he explained.) But the legions of fine children did not see things the same way their parents had, and as they grew older the family learned all the nasty details of the world that the wall of Irish Catholicism had always been able to keep out. Divorce and bankruptcy plagued...
...vacation began with a trip to Long Island and a game against ninth-ranked Hofstra. Hoping to avenge last season's 11-7 loss to the Flying Dutchmen, the stickmen instead had to swallow a bigger dose of the same...
Fruitless Overtures. As with his earlier acquisition efforts, Gray's attempt to swallow up Babcock & Wilcox has not left his target's management cheering. The tender-offer announcement, which caught Wall Street by surprise, followed weeks of fruitless overtures by Gray to B&W's chairman, George Zipf. Last week, after Gray had finally managed to see Zipf twice to no avail, he rocketed off what amounted to an ultimatum, telling Zipf that he had until week's end to declare whether B & W would fight the offer. Zipfs reply was both immediate and curt...