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...Creon. Royall Tyler appropriately spits out his lines in portraying the ardent but hypocritical Polyneices. David Shillman's Theseus suffers only from unclearly articulated diction; otherwise he manages to grasp the psychological changes that Theseus undergoes during the course of the play. Amy Mims is adequate, if a bit stiff, as Antigone's sister Ismene...
...Eastern prep schools, and generally Harvard gets the largest portions. This year, however, the Crimson, according to Wynn, shares many of the experienced players who graduated from prep schools last spring. Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst, and especially Yale, which has one of its strongest squads in years, will all provide stiff opposition for the Yardlings. The first important test of the freshmen's power will come this Saturday at Hanover when they face Dartmouth...
...operations as western Pennsylvania's top Communist Party leader, Steve Nelson, 53, was convicted in two courts. A Pennsylvania Court of Quarter Sessions gave him a stiff 20-year sentence and $10,000 fine for twelve violations of the 37-year-old state sedition act; then a Federal District Court added a milder five-year term for Smith Act violations. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court tossed out (6-3) Nelson's conviction by the state of Pennsylvania, ruled that the Federal Government alone may prosecute those who advocate its overthrow...
Back in Cambridge, the varsity faces a stiff stretch in the Briggs Cage and the probability that the season opener against Syracuse (scheduled for Saturday) will be postponed...
...University of Baltimore jumped ahead of a varsity, stiff and swollen after a day's rest, and kept the lead although outscored by the Crimson in the second half...