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When hockey and football can't seem to crack the old Eli bastion in New Haven, leave the cracking to us, Tom Sanders might tell you. His Crimson cagers did everything but maul the walls of Gothic Payne Whitney Gymnasium with a battering ram last night, strewing the hardwood with shattered Yale strategies and sweeping to an easy 87-65 victory...
...Haven has held bad memories for Harvard this year. When Tom Sanders and his Crimson cagers take to the Paine Whitney Gymnasium floor tonight against Yale at 8 p.m., they will be out to end the Bulldog jinx...
...first exhibition of American folk art-which, roughly speaking, means the work of late 18th and 19th century rural (or at least not cosmopolitan) artists and artisans with little or no formal training-took place in 1924. It was organized by a collector, Juliana Force, at the Whitney Studio Club in New York. This small institution has since become the Whitney Museum. Now, 50 years later, it has mounted an ambitious exhibition, "The Flowering of American Folk Art, 1776-1876," which reflects the growth of interest in a once ignored field. If any show can provide a canon of quality...
...embraces the city of Boston, the eastern portion of Massachusetts, and part of New Hampshire. New York City and environs would become the state of Hudson, and Alamo on the map is basically Texas without the panhandle. Under these circumstances, perhaps Old Glory could use some revitalizing, too, and Whitney Smith of the Flag Research Center in Winchester, Mass., has come up with a striking new design for a national banner...
...Wheelock Whitney, a Republican businessman in Minneapolis, is considering running as an Independent against Minnesota's Democratic Governor Wendell R. Anderson. Senator Richard S. Schweiker, a moderate Republican from Pennsylvania, has no plans to bolt the ticket next year, but he has already let the voters know that he is no friend of the White House. He began a recent radio interview: "Well, you know I was on the White House enemies list...