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Ella Fitzgerald tenses fearfully when she hears this. The most popular jazz singer in the world for 27 years and only now reaching the peak of her career, she remains a celebrity fan nonpareil. So out on the stage she goes and sings her heart out to impress Drake Brown. It is unimportant that Drake Brown does not exist. In jazz the end justifies the means...
Harvard's line play was outstanding all day, but it reached its peak when Yale got the ball again. Barrett and Reischel slammed Eli's ball-carriers down with short gains, and the Elis were forced to punt...
Riding the crest of a 32-0 massacre of Princeton last week, the Yale freshman football team comes to Harvard today at the peak of its form and poses a serious threat to the Yardlings' three-game winning streak in the "little Big Game" at 2 this afternoon...
Faith Without Belief As with most Nobel awards, it came to a man whose career is past its peak. Sartre at 59 re mains an authentic hero for French intellectuals, including those who most despise him, and he is one of the few 20th century philosophers whose names^ are at least vaguely known to the public. His drama and fiction (No Exit, Nausea, The Roads to Freedom) are deservedly remembered, his formal philosophical works are read only by specialists and masochists...
...commercial jets, believes that the company's real future lies in outer space. He has already begun preparing for other work at the firm's long-profitable Minuteman ballistic branch, which last week won the company two Government contracts totaling $21 million but is past its peak as a profitmaker. Boeing has also converted the defunct Dyna-Soar branch to space research, is in the running for a contract to build a manned orbiting laboratory, and is building a $15 million space research-and-development center as the next step toward landing more space-age contracts...