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...Harvard Trivia Team, an unofficial student organization, beat the inmates of the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk Saturday night. The contest was arranged by player-coach Lewis R. First '76 and the Prisons Committee of Phillips Brooks House...
First organized the Trivia Team last year at the request of Dr. Jerome Rogoff '60, himself a member of a team of Boston area doctors. Rogoff told First that he wanted the Norfolk squad exposed to competition from Harvard. The inmates subsequently beat Harvard in both contests last year...
First has scheduled a match with the team of Boston doctors for December. He also has contacted Joseph Albiani and Dennis Helden, hosts of Channel 38's trivia show, about the possibility of a televised rematch with the inmates in February...
Faust has always relied on cultural trivia to create atmosphere. In his five-short-story collection, Roar Lion Roar (1965), the artifacts of popular culture actually possessed Faust's characters like real demons. In Foreign Devils, however, the Boxers, Benny Goodman, the basketball fixes of 1951, etc. have sunk to the level of mere nostalgia. One of America's chief natural resources, no doubt, but grossly overexploited at the moment. *R.Z. Sheppard
With so little time remaining before the scheduled unveiling date of May 29, speedy coordination between the City and the Kennedy Corporation over the design is necessary. Without this planning, the Kennedy Library will be just a collection of fond trivia -- a valentine from Caroline, a coconut shell from PT 109, an ivory model boat from Nikita Khrushchev -- within a Harvard Square disrupted by tourists clicking their Instamatics...