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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outstanding performances by playing and winning two singles and one doubles match in one day. In singles, he defeated Eli three-letter-man Gene Scott 6-4, 6-3. He then whipped Swing Meyer in the extra quarter-finals match. The only player to lose for Harvard was William Post, Jr., who after taking the first set, lost the last two to Meyer, 6-0, 6-1. The doubles pairs of Dwight Davis and Tuckerman, and Benkard and John Davis, won quickly, losing no more than two games...

Author: By Bartle Bull, | Title: Crimson Thrashes Yale In Court Tennis Match | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

Harvard wants more of the MTA land in Cambridge than the MTA is willing to sell, William V. Ward, a trustee of the Transit Authority said last night. "A sale of land to the University would be no profit for the MTA," he explained, "unless we keep part of the Cambridge property for ourselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MTA Unwilling to Sell All of City Car Yards | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...WILLIAM PROXMIRE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 16, 1959 | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

Asked Senate Foreign Relations Chairman J. William Fulbright: suppose the U.S. sent an armed convoy through, the Communists stalled it by blowing up a bridge? Answer: the U.S. would repair the bridge. Asked Fulbright: "What would we do if they used armed force at that point to prevent us from repairing the bridge?" Said the President: "That is the $64,000 question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Unity on Berlin | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

After graduation from Georgetown in '50, Sigmund went to England on a Fulbright, studied for a year at the University of Durham, and "lived in a genuine medieval castle, built by William the Conqueror. It had central heating that worked except for Sundays when they tried to heat the Cathedral, too; and there was a policy of 11 o'clock close-up that meant anyone coming home later had to scale two walls and a dry moat, then climb the castle wall itself. But there were plenty of cracks...

Author: By John B. Radner, | Title: Around the World | 3/14/1959 | See Source »

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