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Stocky Pianist Solomon walked briskly to the piano, bald head gleaming under the lights, bowed with almost perfunctory politeness, and sat down. For a full two minutes he peered with patient poise around the hall until his matinee audience settled down into pin-drop silence. Then he began to play the magnificent Bach-Liszt A Minor Prelude and Fugue with the kind of unobtrusive ease and authority that lets an audience relax and forget there is a pianist onstage. In fact, Pianist Solomon even seemed to be enjoying the music himself. Everything else on his program-Scarlatti, Schumann, Beethoven, Chopin...
Buddy King brought the Crimson its first three points after the Tigers had built up an 11-0 lead and Howie Houston added the last five with a pin of heavyweight Reddy Finney in his first real test Houston's stellar performance brought the crowd of 1500 to its feet. In between, however, the Tigers scored pins in the lightweight, middleweight, and heavyweight divisions...
Howie Houston's pin in the heavy-weight class gave Harvard a 19 to 13 victory over the Brown wrestling team yesterday afternoon in Providence...
Brown increased its lead to 11 to 7 as George Held decisioned Rod Skinner at 155, but then Harvard rallied. Tom Connors registered a first period pin over Brown's Tiny O'Donnell in his first start at 165, and Captain Bob Claflin drew with Tony Travison at 175 to set the stage for Houston's triumph...
...three matches that went to a decision, the visitors came out on top but the work of Dave Smith, Bob Abboud, Buddy King, Stan Thompson, and Howie Houston gave the Crimson its fourth win in five starts. For the first three, it was their first pin of the season...