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...agreed to tour the world promoting the virtues of single womanhood. In no time, however, Marjorie overdid it. Her love life sizzled into the headlines: Singer Tom Jones was photographed giving her a soulful kiss, Millionaire Peter Revson was seen squiring her around, and last month, after a tiff, Britain's swinging Soccer Star George Best allegedly broke into Marjorie's London apartment and stole her passport, checkbook, correspondence, liquor and her fur coat, plus other miscellaneous loot. The British organizers of the contest decided that Marjorie's idea of being single was giving "the wrong impression...
Reliably reported: a lovers' tiff. The British press's ardor for prickly Princess Anne is waning as her Nov. 14 marriage to Captain Mark Phillips approaches. Annoyed by the command that servicemen pass the hat for the young couple, newsmen were further rankled by Horsewoman Anne's gibe after she took a fall at the European equestrian championships in Kiev: "Sorry to disappoint but I'm not badly hurt." Not even the special wedding stamp is getting its licks. Cynics note that before the princess would put her best face on it, critical retouching was required...
...scheduled today, between the Brine Lacrosse Club (formerly New England Lacrosse Club) and the Crimson varsity has been washed out. Furthermore, against all muddy tradition of the game, the league contest pitting the frosh with MIT on Tech turf today has been postponed. The varsity will not reschedule its tiff, but the MIT tiff will be made-up, at an unspecified date...
Really, though, in this tiff generated by academics who are bad politicians and made into a donnybrook by a constituency of budding academics, the question of who is right and who is wrong is, well, an academic...
...addition, a Crimson four including three of last year's Henley-winning freshman crew--Tiff Wood, Blair Brooks and Greg Stone--placed third, only four seconds off the winning pace of the Potomac Boat Club in the Elite Fours...