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Even as a teenager working at a Manhattan theater, Irving Brecher, who died Nov. 17 at 94, peddled his comedy writing to anyone who would have it. The Bronx, N.Y., native sent one-liners to columnists Walter Winchell and Ed Sullivan, some of which would occasionally make it into print...
...Staff writer Walter E. Howell can be reached at wehowell@fas.harvard.edu...
...confidence,” Housman said. “We were so abysmal last year. Even though Colgate is not a great team, going to someone’s house and taking them down, it really is going to help.” —Staff writer Walter E. Howell can be reached at wehowell@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Ted Kirby can be reached at tjkirby@fas.harvard.edu...
...three finishes at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational this weekend.Continuing its brutal schedule, the Crimson sent eight competitors to the annual tournament, which features some of the nation’s best talent in the Las Vegas Convention Center.Junior Andrew Knapp, sophomore Michael Sadler, and rookies Bryan Panzano, Walter Peppelman, and Sean Murphy rounded out the Harvard lineup against a field that included nine teams in the top 25 and five of the top 10.The Crimson posted an 11th-place finish in the 44-team tournament. With an incomplete roster, Harvard looked to focus on the experience gained from...
...Unlike some fandroids, Ackerman actually got married. His wife Wendayne, four years older than Forry, translated SF novels by the German authors Karl Herbert Scheer, Kurt Mahr and Walter Ernsting. She died in 1990 and is buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, Calif., under the marker "Wife of Mr. Science Fiction." On his MySpace page, Forry wrote: "My life companion, Wendayne (the only one in the world) Ackerman, as the aftermath of a mugging in Italy, died some years ago, but not before translating 150 sci-fi novels from French & German, moonlighting while teaching for 20 years at university...