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...lightweights will also have to beat Navy to cop their fourth straight Joseph Wright Trophy. The lightweights' only loss this year was to the Middies, who broke the Crimson's 32 victory streak at the same time...

Author: By C. BOYDEN Gray, | Title: Crimson Lightweights Seek Sprints Victory | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...sits, boys," cried the boss of the tugs. "Blow your horns!" The spirit of the occasion even moved the staid Queen Juliana. She tossed her purse to a surprised cop, waved away courtiers clucking in alarm, waded ankle-deep in the construction-site muck to reach the ladder and clamber to the top of Caisson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Netherlands: Closing the Gap | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

After his abortive attempt to cop the Republican presidential nomination last year, many Republicans blamed Rocky for Dick Nixon's landslide loss of New York State in November. As far as the national party was concerned, Rockefeller stood under a large cloud of disapproval. But last winter he turned his back on national politics, retreated to his Albany fastness, and earnestly attempted to improve his record as Governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: Playing It Cool | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

Hentoff called most jazz critics "amateurish" and "incompetent." "It's an easy cop-out for a jazzman to say a critic doesn't know what's he doing, because he's right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Opens Quincy-Holmes Festival | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...master's on deviant behavior (trying to get the "scoop on the loop," as Rawle says). In the second act these two put on a marvelous song and dance called the "Planned Obsolescence Mambo." Rawle also has two excellent duets with John TenBrook, as Tuesday Kowalczyk (a muscular lady cop). Doyle has a way of exclaiming "That's fascinating!" that can bring almost any scene to a riotous close...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Pro and Con | 3/23/1961 | See Source »

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