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Hottest contest of the evening is sure to be the election of vice chairman Michael E. Abram '66 of Kirkland House and Evan A. Davis '66 of Leverett House will vie for the post with fairly equal records of Council service. Abram and Ellis are old friends, but Ellis has not taken sides in the election. He is expected to encourage the loser of the race to easier, the election for secretary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HCUA to Choose Officers Tonight; Ellis Heavily Favored for Chairman | 2/25/1964 | See Source »

Earlier is the day Vie Niederhoffer termed back former Princeton star Jim Bag 18-11, 15-13, 15-12, to win the Massachusetts "A" Championship. Niederhoffer also won the number one match against Penn, topping sophomore Howard Coonley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squashmen Win | 2/10/1964 | See Source »

...appointments foi $3,000 apiece. One Premier of the Third Republic, Pierre-Maurice Rou-vier, casually made his mistress' husband a Legionnaire because "of the special services rendered to me by his wife." Once when he was having bad luck fishing, legend has it, Author Henri Murger (La Vie de Boheme) baited his hook with his scarlet ribbon and said: "Now they are sure to bite. This is something everyone likes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: The Scarlet Epidemic | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

...life to Live comes as close to translating the French titleSa Vie Vivre as it does to presenting a convincing character--not quite close enough. Director Jean-Luc Godord (Breathless) casts his wife, Anna Karina, in a difficult rile. She must persuade us that although she leaves her husband and child to become a prostitute, she is irreproachable. No matter what she does, the movie implies that, like Suzie Wong and Irma La Douce she remains somehow pure...

Author: By Paul Williams, | Title: My Life to Live | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

...compare Sa Vie Vivre with Suzie and Irma is of course heresy: the American films are in middle-brow technicolor while Godard's is in avant-garde black and white. Their endings reflect this difference: while Suzie and Irma live happily ever after, Nana dies...

Author: By Paul Williams, | Title: My Life to Live | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

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