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...homage to culture, CBS casually dropped a small token into its schedule: a show that offered nothing to the eye but four people talking, nothing to the ear but talk of how to use the English language properly. To the surprise of network skeptics, The Last Word proved the sleeper of 1957, demonstrated that syntax can be made almost as fascinating as sin. Rounding out its sixth month this week, the lively sleeper (now on at 6 p.m., E.D.T.) is still piling up a whopping 1,000 letters a day from Americans who want answers to the tricky problems...
...varsity fencing team, selected by a pre-Intercollegiate coaches meeting as a "sleeper" team, overslept this weekend and placed only ninth in a field of twelve squads in New York. Fencing 33 bouts in each event, the varsity won 15 in epee, 14 in foil, and 13 in sabre...
...last three games, its opponents have had several chances to score on solo rushes when Crimson defensemen have been caught out of position or in too far on the opposition's goal. Yale scored one of its goals in this manner last Saturday, and will doubtless play a sleeper tonight hoping for the same break...
...have one player who may cause the varsity some trouble: Harry Rulon-Miller, a junior lineman who led his team in scoring last year and who is among the top five scorers in the Ivy League this year. Princeton coach Dick Vaughan may well use him as a sleeper tonight as opposing teams have found this to be just about the only defensive weakness of the Crimson...
Successful shouting paid off in the 200-yard breaststroke, however, where Sigo Falk passed Dan Goethe with a spurt in the last yards. Goethe had been placed at the far edge of the pool as a sleeper, where Falk could...