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...setting. There have been periodic shows of pomp: the Fourteenth of July was "the biggest ever," with fireworks, parades, and dancing in the streets (at the Invalides, a massive amusement park called Le Plus Grand Bal du Monde operated from 4 p.m. to 4 a.m. throughout the four-day week-end); the French Community of Nations was initiated in grandiose ceremony, and the various African dignitaries who comprise the Community Senate are made much of on their frequent visits to Paris...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: The Future of an Illusion | 11/4/1959 | See Source »

Since Vinton and Lemann will not be making the week-end trip to Navy and Pennsylvania, Freshman coach Corey Wynn (filling in for the ailing Barnaby) experimented with Gallwey and Wood as a second doubles team. They did very well, defeating Grose and Dave Inglis, 6-4, 6-1. At third doubles, Langden Smith and Scott Custer beat Lowy and Lee Talner...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Tennis Team Defeats Amherst, 8-1; Weld Drops Match to Enemy Ace | 4/23/1959 | See Source »

...enthusiastic New Hampshire resident nick-named "Duke" has spent a chilly and voluntary week-end in the Charles Street jail because he objects to the Massachusetts non-resident income tax. A.A. ("Duke") Vautier, an engineer in a Boston firm, refused to pay a $140 income tax bill, and, apparently after some maneuvering, managed to get himself arrested, so that his could be a test case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spirit of '76 | 4/14/1959 | See Source »

...credit, however, does not go to the plot or to the dialogue. The first is a displaced Agatha Christie murder mystery which would have found its logical setting in an English country home on an English country week-end. Instead, the authors have chosen to borrow liberally from the journalism of Art Buchwald and Cleveland Amory and transport their characters to a combination of Biarritz and Capri. The resultant hybrid is not happy. Nor, sad to say, are the lines the participants are made to speak in their non-musical moments. The jokes, such as they are, represent the scum...

Author: By Alfred FRIENDLY Jr., | Title: Busy Bodies | 3/19/1959 | See Source »

PHILADELPHIA--The City of Brotherly Love met a stinging rejection in Washington on this balmy spring-like afternoon, but redeemed itself in the evening as her favorite sons, the Red and Blue of Penn, won their bid to avenge last week-end's shellacking by the Crimson...

Author: By Mark L. Krupnick, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Penn Mauls Varsity Five In One-Sided 73-53 Game | 2/28/1959 | See Source »

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