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Other key Crimson firsts included co-captain Marc Chapus's 48.98 finish in the 400-meter run. Junior Bennett Midlo came in a second later to notch fourth place and give the Crimson an additional tally...
Having racked up 70 points by the two-mile event--only 69 points are needed to win a dual meet--Harvard had the meet in the bag before the relays even began. With the Big Three meet (Harvard-Yale-Princeton) coming Sunday, the coaches decided to pull co-captain Marc Chapus from the mile relay and Adam Dixon from the two-mile relay, as both had previously won nhotly contested races...
...DIED. Marc Connelly, 90, playwright, bon vivant and raconteur whose 1930 play The Green Pastures, depicting Old Testament stories as they might have been enacted by Southern plantation blacks, is one of the enduring triumphs of the American theater; in New York City. An early collaborator of George S. Kaufman and one of the circle of wits at the Algonquin Round Table in the 1920s, he later turned to directing, writing and traveling...
Novelist John Marquand called him the third best editor he had ever known, after George Horace Lorimer and Maxwell Perkins. William Faulkner, Rebecca West, Willa Cather and other major writers found him a staunch and generous companion. Marc Connelly and William Saroyan phoned him when they needed money. One of the few dissenters was Evelyn Waugh, who called him, with characteristic bile, "an emaciated Jew lately promoted within the Hearst organization from editing a weekly paper devoted to commercial chemistry...
...Marc Chapus equalled his university record in the 440 yard dash, but was beaten by a Northeastern runner, Bill Jenkins. Jenkins, with a time of 48.30 seconds, beat Chapus easily to set a new building record...