Word: vied
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with some love-making of his own. After Bogie slips into his Yale sweater, takes the uke and Rudy Vallee records out of the closet, and goes courting, he has to determine whether the beautiful nymph will spend the rest of her life regaling him with choruses of La Vie En Rose, or be packed off on the next boat to Paris. Happily, the obviousness of this decision doesn't slow down the pace of the film...
...blossom in Paris, the sweet fragrance along the Seine and how the cafes along the Champs Elysees or the Kurfurstendam are putting up their awnings again. The lament of the Eliot House cognoscenti or the bread-cheese-and wine continental wanderers at the Bick for the douceur de vie is especially plaintive as Harvard thaws...
...highlight of the tourney will be the scramble for the individual title, but each of the four-man teams will also vie for a team trophy...
Tomorrow's Harvard-Yale swimming extravaganza takes on added importance because of the impending retirement of two giants from the coaching scene. Both Crimson varsity mentor Hal Ulen and the Elis' Bob Kiphuth will coach the final dual meets of their careers when the two teams vie for the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League championship...
They all sing La Vie En Rose, and they all sing of an unreal Paris, but their styles are as different as a hangover at the Ritz is from a morning-after brandy in St. Germain des Prés. Blonde Vicky Autier, one of the three French singers who seem to have taken over Manhattan night life, appears at the St. Regis Maisonette in a $1,000 spangled black velvet gown, and she sings the song with gay sophistication. Blonder Lilo bounces about the Plaza's Persian Room in brief white tights, and sings La Vie with brassy...