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...management will turn the volume up. Chords that were farfetched or tries-counting become velvety, even lash, and, if you hear the song more than once, you can bury yourself in it as you munch your french fries. You might believe whatever the song tells you-as you swim in the music and hug the jukebox...
...thought of "that kind of thing." Even the film's eminently sensitive director. Robert Towne, finally succumbs to provincial homophobia--it won't be giving away much to say that at the end of Personal Best. Hemingway "reforms" and takes for a lover a handsome blond male swim champion. Girl meets girl. Girl gets girl. Girl loses girl. Boy gets girl. Audience breathes big sigh of relief. And it's really too bad, because with a little more courage. Towne could have made what is now a very good and sometimes beautiful film, into a great...
...meet wrapped up a season which saw Harvard lose only twice in the Ivy League (to perennial nemeses Brown and Princeton), and finish second to Boston University in the Greater Boston Championships. Every member of this year's national-qualifying squad will swim for the Crimson next year...
Princeton and Brown are the only other Ivy League schools that are doing better than Harvard. Princeton's Betty Limb finished second in the 200-yard freestyle, and Brown sophomore Elaine Palmer won the 100-yard backstroke. Palmer is a Cambridge product of Harvard swim Coach Joe Bernal's Gator team...
...five years at Harvard, Bernal has captured five Ivy League titles and four Eastern Seaboard Championships while compiling a 49-1 record. The swim team has not lost a meet in the past two seasons. Last week, only a day before Bernal's accident, Harvard clinched its fourth straight Eastern crown...