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From sailboats the Advocate shifts to speedways with Erik Amfitheatrof's "The Day of Giants." Expect for a few reflective paragraphs which seem superfluous and some strained metaphors like "The flat, heavy sunlight squirmed inside his head," the writing is fast-moving and clear. The author is stronger near the end where he flavors the story with much of the vigour of a motor marathon...
Guyda was pleased with his club's performance and used but one substitution. The Yardlings suffered no injuries in the contest and will be at full strength against a tough Dartmouth team here Friday. Also playing for the Crimson against Tech were halfbacks Erik Strapper, Captain Al Hoyt, and Steve Reibal, and inside Steve Parker...
Among the standout performers: Character Dancer Gerda Karstens, as a dour old Quaker lady whose stiff movements and deadpan face seemed to disapprove of what her feet were doing; lithe, pretty Ballerina Inge Sand, who danced Delibes' Coppélia on the second night; Erik Bruhn, who bounded through the Nutcracker; and Frank Schaufuss and Mona Vangsaa, who gave a touching performance of ill-fated young love in Romeo and Juliet. Londoners, used to the heady perfection of Sadler's Wells, loved the more natural Danes, brought them back again & again to bow to the applause-a thrill...
...opposition has not made much of an impression. One of the chief obstacles: Norway's traditional (and largely justified) trust in the honesty of its political leaders. When Erik Brofoss, Labor's Commerce Minister, says "This law may be a mistake, but faced by the uncertainties of future war or depression . . . it is a very honest attempt to meet the problems that might arise," the man in the street sees the sincerity of Brofoss' remark but misses its naiveté. Another obstacle, said a bitter Norwegian shipowner, was too much reliance on skippertak, the Norwegian habit...
...Eliot, nosed out Dunster's Ken Culbert yesterday afternoon to win the House novice singles championship. Bill Cini of Winthrop placed third. Mike Halberstam of Dunster won the comp race, beating George Walcott of Eliot. Another Dunster man, Dirck Post, won the House wherry race, with Lowell's Erik Amfitheatrof second...