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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rittenburg, who won four events last week, captured the bread jump with a leap of 21 feet 6 and 3-8 inches. He also tied for second in the high jump, behind teammate Ty Smith, and then edged Twitchell in the 120 high hurdles...
Track coach Bill McCurdy gets worried when he feels too good. Although he attests to being "versus superstition," McCurdy does admit one ritual he performed faithfully in the days when high jumper Ty Smith was on the team. "Every time he jump, I'd turn away," confessed the track coach. But McCurdy maintains that he hasn't been coaching long enough to develop any real superstitions...
Even in the steamy climate of Indo-China, the spark of music burns bright. For the better part of three decades, delicate, dark-haired Louise Nguyen Van Ty nursed hers in the environs of Saigon, finally coaxed it to the point where she thought it might ignite a cosmopolitan audience. This week, with Paris' noted Lamoureux Orchestra, she played the piano solo...
Before she left for home, Louise began to compose. Back in Saigon, she married Nguyen Van Ty, an engineer who has since become a Viet Nam delegate to the Assembly of the French Union. She spent the next 15 years there, giving piano lessons and an occasional recital, jotting down native dance tunes and turning them into her own compositions. Eventually, she abandoned the Western seven-note scale in favor of the Oriental five-note kind, but her music still had some of the impressionist quality of Debussy and Ravel...
McCurdy feels that his biggest replacement problems are in the high jump and shot put. Dick Barwise, Harvard high jump record holder and a consistent 6 foot 2 inch jumper, was the team's only threat. Now Bob Rittenburg. Ty Smith, and Don Whitehead are left, but none have broken six feet yet this year...