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...pound class: Doherty vs. Vera...
Epee: Ager won 7, lost 5. Constable won 5, lost 7. Yates won 2, lost 10. Foll: Vera won 6, lost 6. Raney won 5, lost 7. Arp won 2, lost 4. Frankman won 3, lost 2. Saber: Gay won 9, lost 6, Masterson won 3, lost 9. Carter won 7, lost...
Harvard will be represented in epee by John Ager, Giles Costable, and George Yates: in foil by Chip Arp, Ray Frankmann, Bill Raney , and Joe Vera; and in saber by Carter, Gay, Bob Westhrin, and Tom Masterson...
...Vera's singing when she began broadcasting with Ambrose and His Orchestra in 1937. But she really won her queen's crown during the war with a program for the troops called Sincerely Yours. So many of them heard her telling Private Bill Jones his wife was well, then following up with Bill's favorite song, that standard questions of returning British troops were 1) "What's left of London?" and 2) "Is Vera still alive...
...Vera is not much interested, she says, in coming to New York ("too much of a headache"). She would rather be with her husband Harry and three-year-old daughter Virginia at home in Regent's Park, where she still does most of the housework-"anything with my hands, and not much with my brain." Vera's explanation of her success: "I suppose I'm the girl in the street, singing to the man in the street...