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Radcliffe won three of the four division, yielding only in the Advanced to Laurie Maxson of Connecticut college. Sylvia Cox took the Beginner I , Dianna Bishop captured the II class, and Captain Lynn Selker on the Intermediate championship. Miss took the overall individual title defeating the winners of the other in a round-robin playoff...
...Billings came through beautifully with her usual perfect score, winning all nine bouts she played. Sylvia Cox took six and Lynn Selker four, to give the Cliffies a 9-0 triumph against M.I.T., a 7-2 victory over Sargent, and a 3-6 loss to Brandeis...
Jean Untermeyer displays a persevering but uneven personality, one dedicated to passion and sensibility but continually drawn to the comforting but humdrum virtues of a tidy housewife. Her prose reflects this dichotomy, ranging from the limpest of cliches to flights of intuitive perception, as in her lines about Sylvia Townsend Warner: "Yet all is not wit, though it springs out from her as pointed as a prow. There is wisdom, as final as a proverb...
...turns out to be Carroll Baker, who dolls up many a flashback as Maharis treks across country jogging the memories of Viveca Lindfors, Edmond O'Brien, Ann Sothern and others. He learns that Sylvia was raped in Pittsburgh in her teens, drifted into prostitution in Mexico, developed a taste for book learning, and graduated to $100-a-night status as a Manhattan call girl employed by a transvestite panderer named Lola. Then a sadistic lover's $10,000 payoff permitted her "to acquire travel, Europe and culture." Finally face to face with his quarry, Maharis discovers that loose...
Given drivel which follows the plot of Laura right up to the outskirts of Fanny Hill, Director Gordon Douglas (Rio Conchos) makes surprisingly lively entertainment of it. Spirited performers also lend Sylvia a sorely needed touch of class, and Actress Baker schlumps through the role at a wry deadpan pace, obviously enjoying her buildup as Hollywood's sex queen pro tern...