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Several University squash players will be competing for the State championship squash racquets crown, when the championship tournament opens tomorrow in the various clubs of the members of the Massachusetts Squash Racquets Association. The tournament is for class A players and all entrants must sign up by noon today if they wish to enter the contest...
...days of moping, pallid Louis IX, "Saint Louis" (1226-70), Frenchmen dealt in a gold coin called the ecu or "crown." Last week M. le Professeur Charles Gide of the College de France proposed that a new ecu be struck with, the value of one U. S. dollar and that the present depreciated franc (4?) be scrapped...
Tradition of the past few years has thrown over Harvard-Dartmouth hockey meetings a titular glamor. In 1926, the two sextets, Crimson and Green, came neck and neck down the home stretch of the ice season, and a 3 to 2 victory gave Harvard the mythical crown of the eastern ice. Last year, after an early 4 to 2 loss, the Indians rallied in the second game to battle through three overtime periods to a 3 to 2 tie and a share in the glory of the championship...
Martinelli (as the prophet whose fanatical followers crown him a Dutch Rex in 16th Century Holland) put aside his tendency to blustery winds of song and wrung his effects from masterful restraint. Amid settings by Joseph Urban the "Ice Ballet" was realistically skated without ice, the castle was dynamited without dynamite, and the penultimate coronation scene achieved a splendor eclipsed only by such scenic orgies as the Metropolitan's Turandot...
...hoped that they will take steps to see that the traditions of Afghanistan are not lightly treated, that those past generations of Afghans may not have cause to turn over in their graves. The problem is a delicate one. "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown", but how much more precarious it is for a royal head that wears a white top hat when it should be a fez, or at least its "Afghan equivalent...