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Meanwhile, Elizabeth bestowed her first titles of the reign, including four peerages, five baronetcies, 60 knighthoods. Among those elevated: Movie Director Carol (The Third Man) Reed and Novelist Compton (Tight Little Island) Mackenzie, knighthoods. A pretty planter's wife in Malaya, Mrs. Patricia Webber, who has twice been ambushed by Red guerrillas only to escape, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for "great courage, loyalty and cheerfulness under very adverse conditions...
...Harvard crew, the Compton Cup, over Princeton (by two lengths), M.I.T., and Rutgers; on Princeton's Lake Carnegie...
...defeating Princeton impressively by two lengths without a sprint on Lake Carnegie Saturday afternoon, the varsity crew not only regained possession of the Compton Cup, but also proved itself to be one of the East's foremost contenders for an Olympic berth. Harvey Love's eight covered the mile and three-quarter course in 9:05.8, 13 seconds off the 1950 Compton Cup record set by Harvard. The Tigers had a 9:13.4 time, while Tech and Rutgers, the other two contestants, finished well behind in 9:24.6, and 9:55.6, respectively...
Saturday's win was the 12th Compton Cup triumph for Harvard crews in 13 races. Princeton won the Cup last season on the Charles. Olympic contenders Navy and Penn, next week's Crimson opponents, have also beaten Princeton, but neither of them as decisively as Harvard. Navy's two-length win over the Tigers was with a full sprint last weekend, while Harvard needed no sprint to win by the same margin. Navy, however, turned in an astonishing 8:27 time over a mile and three-quarters downstream course in beating Wisconsin on the Severn River the weekend. The record...
Everybody has a score to settle this afternoon on Lake Carnegie when the varsity heavies race Princeton and Tech in the annual Compton Cup Regatta over a mile and three-quarters course. The Crimson will be out to avenge last year's Compton Cup loss to the Tigers, Tech wants to pay back Harvey Love's crew for last week's loss on the Charles, while the host crew is still looking for its first win in three starts...