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Exam fatigue, a long layoff, and a much improved opponent may prove more than the Crimson hockey team can handle when it opens the second half of its season tonight in the Arena. The opponent, Northeastern, has played topflight hockey since returning to action last week after exams, and Cooney Weiland's men, with only sporadic practice during exam period, are definite underdogs, Face...
...Magination (Sun. 6:30 p.m., CBS). Topflight children's show finally returns...
Making his first trip in the road's two-car presidential office was Harry Ashby DeButts, 56, a topflight operating man who has spent all his business life with the Southern. A graduate of Virginia Military Institute (1916), DeButts went straight to work with a pick & shovel on the tracks, hit almost every rung of the ladder on the way up. In 1937 President Norris made DeButts vice president in charge of operations...
...show finally got under way, two weeks late. Despite the boycott and an abundance of mediocre canvases by what critics blasted as "pathetically stubborn anonymous youngsters" and "wall swallowers," there was still some topflight work among the 2,000 sculptures, paintings and drawings. Roman Sculptor Pericle Fazzini displayed a handsome streamlined angel, Milanese Sculptor Giacomo Manzù a series of 25 brilliant figure sketches for works in bronze. Among the pictures were powerful drawings of fishermen by Roman Marcello Muccini, several robustly expressionist nudes by Fausto Pirandello, son of Playwright Luigi Pirandello, and a half-gallery of ex-Surrealist Giorgio...
...Giovanni Pauletta was head of all microbiological research at Carlo Erba, Milan's big chemical-pharmaceutical company. Recognized as one of Italy's topflight microbiologists, he was one of the first to study penicillin mold in Italy, had written widely on antibiotics. Dr. Pauletta's colleagues also knew him as a dedicated and fearless experimenter who had used himself as a guinea pig hundreds of times. But the doctor never talked much about his experiments. "He was a very modest man," his colleagues said...