Word: acclaimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FRANK SINATRA: A MAN AND HIS MUSIC + ELLA + JOBIM (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). After receiving considerable acclaim last fall for this salute to rhythm, the threesome return for an encore...
Alan P. Symonds '69, founder of the Bwana Bus and Light Company which does technical work for over half of Harvard's productions, received raucus acclaim for his efforts to obtain the lighting equipment. Robert V. Edgar '69, in his welcome speech, immortalized Symonds with the following lines: "Dunster lay in universal night; God said 'Let Symonds be' and there was light...
Forty years ago Harvard's squash team had that string of conquests, but ironically they haven't received the acclaim they deserve. Anil Nayar '69 has just cleaned up collegiate squash with victories at the Canadian and U.S. Intercollegiates. He lost at the U.S. Nationals. Under Harry L. Cowles, Harvard's first and greatest squash coach, Crimson players won the National Singles title everyone of the thirteen years Cowles coached, and won National Team titles in 1925, '26, '27, '31, and '32. No other college team reached that pinnacle again until 1951, when Harvard took it once more...
...Second World War. After the war, he studied law at the University of Virginia and at the University of Edinburgh. In 1954 he won election to the state's House of Delegates and two years later entered the State Senate. While he was in the Senate, he earned acclaim even from the Byrd people for a four-year study of the state's public education system...
While it was still under way, Sir Francis Chichester's 226-day single-handed circumnavigation of the globe in the 53-ft. ketch Gipsy Moth IV received more popular acclaim than an armada of Magellans, Drakes and Joshua Slocums. Fleet Street printed reams on his every tack; BBC cameras traced his tortuous rounding of Cape Horn; the Queen knighted him in midpassage. Sailors and landlubbers alike marveled at the ability of a 65-year-old man, who had won a bout with lung cancer eight years earlier, to survive everything from chronic leaks to a capsizing in the Tasman...