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Though still rather exhausted by its mighty move into tiddlywinks last year, Harvard's ever-expanding sports program will take another historic stride in the next few weeks when the Karate Club is formally organized. The Club, which will be open to all undergraduates, will usher Harvard into the extremely elite circle of American universities which have karate organztaions, and may indeed be the first formally organized college karate club in the nation...
...daughter of Actress Joan Bennett and Film Producer Walter Wanger; and Frederick Guest II, 25, investment banker-son of Socialite Winston Guest; in one of Manhattan's gayest summer weddings, attended by the Maharajah of Jaipur, and including Prince Juan Carlos, son of the Spanish Pretender, as an usher, after which the newlyweds took off for a year-long honeymoon...
Minihan was chairman of the Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs, activities coordinator for the Quincy House Committee and a member of the Combined Charities board of overseers. A former junior usher, he holds the Procter and Gamble Scholarship. Under Minihan's chairmanship, the Council regained its prestige and efficiency in dealing both with student and Faculty...
...Yellow Kid. The idea for the school goes back to 1892 and New York World Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, who helped usher in a new era of U.S. journalism, replete with screaming headlines and a cartoon character called the Yellow Kid who gave the era its name. But Pulitzer dreamed of higher things and a college that would help achieve them. "It will be the object of the college to make better journalists, who will make better newspapers, which will better serve the public." Harvard was approached, but its faculty considered journalism on a par with lathe turning. Columbia finally...
...mixed colorless Italian and Spanish songs with minor arias by Cilea, Caccini, Massenet, Lalo, Puccini, and Bellini, and since the Puccini was "E Lucevan le Stelle," which is barely music, Bellini was left as the tallest of the pygmies. An usher told me that Tagliavini has been singing these bleak, unimaginative programs for years...