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...Penn victory left the Crimson with a 3-0 league mar (7-3 overall) heading into Tuesday's showdown at home with a surprisingly tough Dartmouth squad at home. The Big Green is 5-1, 2-1 league, after beating Penn and losing to Columbia this weekend...
After the match, Fish--who celebrated a birthday yesterday--revealed that he had rented several hours of time on some clay courts in Boston earlier this week to prepare for the Columbia showdown...
...colleagues a "serious" artist of the first rank. "In linking art to the modern consciousness," declares Art Critic Harold Rosenberg, "no artist is more relevant than Steinberg. That he remains an art-world outsider is a problem that critical thinking in art must compel itself to confront." That showdown is about to begin. This week an exhibition of 258 drawings, watercolors, paintings and assemblages by Steinberg opens at New York City's Whitney Museum, accompanied by a book (Saul Steinberg; Knopf; $10.95 softcover) with critical appraisal of the artist by Rosenberg...
...mild surprise in the medley by not swimming Hackett, who split a blazing 45.0 against Yale last weekend, in the anchor leg. A swimmer may race in all three relays and three individual events in the championships, but apparently Bernal wanted to save his premier swimmer for a later showdown...
...earlier this season, Princeton--which has won the championship meet for the last five years in a row--is the decided favorite. You can forget the other ten or 15 teams that will be splashing around Brown's classy pool this weekend. This is a two-team showdown: Hackett's Heroes vs. the Incredible Orange Machine...