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...water polo team: This may be the most strenous sport since rollerball. The supposed object: to toss the ball into the net. The secret agenda: to drown the opponent. Perhaps this is overestimating the vicious nature of the game, but water polo is the most under-appreciated sport around. It falls somewhere between ballet and bull-riding in the gracefulness department, and has more scoring than field hockey and soccer combined...
...reason water polo is so misunderstood--and, therefore, so ignored--is that half the game takes place under water, out of sight of the 50 or so people who turn out for each game. The ball is flung around on the surface, but don't think the players use their legs merely to stay afloat. There are secret (if not always legal) tricks to the treading trade...
Last November, the men's water polo team entered the Eastern tournament at Annapolis with high hopes, if not great qualifications. But Harvard could not manage a single win in the tournament, and received a 21-0 dunking by a powerful Navy squad in the process...
...Eastern Water Polo League Tournament final between Harvard and Fordham yesterday at Blodgett Pool was, appropriately, a battle of undefeated teams...
...family tree shook out impoverished European aristocrats. His iron-willed mother told him, "With a tennis racquet and a dinner jacket, you'll be able to go anywhere in life." Oleg Cassini, 74, needed no other guidance. He lived high, and he lasted. Intermittently a dress designer, he played polo on the Army cavalry team during World War II and basked in '40s Hollywood, married Gene Tierney, drank with Errol Flynn and romanced Grace Kelly, even as her rich parents scoured Europe for bluer blood. Cassini is best known for being couturier to Jackie Kennedy ("I want all ((my outfits...