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...Canadiens use to lower tension. One standard trick: the "initiation ceremony," in which a rookie-and an occasional sportswriter-is seized by the entire squad of naked bellowing Canadiens as he saunters into the locker room. The victim can count himself lucky if he is merely stripped to the buff and given a snow bath...
Vasell tried to pass the Lions back into the game, and he nearly did it. But with third and five on the Harvard 11 and Savini warming up his kicking too and Lion coach Buff Donelli holding a tee. Vasell called a pass. End Dave Hudepohl smashed through the weakening Columbia line and hurried Vasell, who tossed the ball to the Crimson's Tom Boone on the five. That was it.A Columbia end eludes a Crimson defender and snares one of Vasell's passes...
Morale, the stuff that holds a team together, is beginning to be a problem for Crimson coach John Yovicsin and Columbia mentor Buff Donelli. One more loss would be enough to put either squad into the lulled state of passive acceptance that is almost impossible to shake...
...most remarkable figures in thoroughbred racing is France's stout carelessly dressed Germaine Vuillier 71, the grandmotherly breeding manager behind the traditions and the profit of the famed Khan family stables. In recent months Madame Vuillier's success has even begun to make a racing buff out of family's spokesman who has always been bored by horses: 23-year-old Karim the reigning Aga Khan and son of the Sportsman Aly Khan, who was killed in May at the wheel of his Lancia. When Aly's will was published last week, it declared that...
...World of Apu (Edward Harrison) completes, in alternations of suffering and joy, one of the most vital and abundant movies ever made. Based on a bestselling Bengali novel by Bibhuti Bannerji, the picture was written, produced and directed as three separate pictures by a 39-year-old Calcutta film buff named Satyajit Ray (pronounced Sawt-yaw-jit Rye). Each of the three lasts about an hour and 45 minutes and stands as a separate and complete cinema experience in its own right. But the moviemaker intended his trilogy ultimately to be seen and judged as a single immense discursive epic...