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...highly concentrated, as high as four and eight parts per million. (Some of these towns are now "defluoridating" down to the optimum 1 p.p.m.) Oldtimers there are found to have harder bones, with more fluorides in them, than their kin in non-fluoridated areas. At East Carolina University, Dr. Hal J. Daniel III has studied the stapes bones (in the middle ear, and essential to hearing) of residents in high-and low-fluoride areas. He finds evidence of much more deafness from stapes disease in low-fluoride areas...
...Hal Smith, a member of the Harvard freshman team and co-captain with Fitzsimmons last year at Fairfield Prep in Connecticut, said that varsity coach Bob Harrison told him yesterday that Fitzsimmous almost came to Harvard in the first place, but at the last moment chose Duke instead. As is often the case, the final decision involved a financial consideration. "Duke was giving him a free ride, and Harvard wasn't," Harvard guard Dale Dover explained...
Fred Lang and Dick Kelly each contributed nine points to the Crimson cause, and Hal Smith and Tom Blackenstone added six apiece...
Second-team member Hal Smith, the "hot-dog" of the team, scored late in the game on two twirling shots and set up two more baskets on behind-the-back and hook passes through mazes of players. Another sub, Tom Backenstose grabbed a pass with a second left in the game and threw up a fade-away jump shot at the buzzer that swished the net to put the freshmen over the century mark...
...Died. Hal March, 49, Broadway actor, onetime quizmaster on the infamous TV giveaway show The $64,000 Question; of pneumonia following the removal of a cancerous lung; in Los Angeles. A journeyman actor when he took over Question in 1955, March stayed with the show for three years before quitting in favor of a Broadway career. He had no connection with the 1959 quiz scandals, and went on to success as the star of the 1961 comedy Come Blow Your Horn...