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...Harvard Yacht Club will enter two boats in an invitational regatta at Providence on Sunday. Seven other college teams will attempt to wrest the Sharpe Trophy from the Crimson, winners of the meet last year...
Individually, while no Crimson player can match the feats of the three big Yalies, there are still some high spots. George Harrington, a 5-7 guard, has emerged as the top individual player, and is almost certain to wrest the team scoring leadership away from Dick Woolston before the season ends...
...election to the Senate in 1958 (TIME, Jan. 14). In California, where the body politic revolves around the uncomfortable triumvirate of Knight, Vice President Richard Nixon and Senate Minority Leader William Fife Knowland, gossips thought they saw what lay in Knowland's mind: return to California, wrest the governorship from Goodie Knight in 1958, battle Dick Nixon for the GOPresidential nomination...
...breaking both shoulders in two falls within thrfee days; luscious Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 24, in Manhattan after an emergency operation for a crushed spinal disk; Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black, 70, discharged after a brief visit to Bethesda Naval Hospital after recovering from a mild urinary tract infection; Wrest Virginia's aged (82) Democratic Senator Matthew Neely, whose fifth term runs until 1961, bedding in a hospital near Washington (for an estimated three more months) with a cracked hip; peppery Tennistar (and 1950 U.S. singles champion) Art Larsen, 31, in Castro Valley, Calif., partially paralyzed and blind...
...South Pole, Paul Siple (who first visited the antarctic as a Boy Scout with Admiral Richard Byrd's 1928-30 expedition, was a member of four later expeditions) will direct the research activities of a group of U.S. scientists who in the coming months hope to wrest from the antarctic some of its best-kept secrets...