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...McKusick also set a new mark. His time of 14:46 was 12 seconds better than Messenger's year-old standard. Three other runners were clocked in better-than-record time. The best Harvard could do in that race was Doug Hardin's 35th place. The team panted into 11th place on the same kind of depth the varsity boasts. But it wasn't enough for Ivy League honors, which went to Cornell...
Harvard's order of finish was: Dave Allen, fourth; Jim Baker, 11th; Jonathan K. Chaffee, 16th; Bob Stempson, 19th. Last year's winner Walt Hewlett, suffering from a leg strain, took 23rd...
Kennedy paterfamilias at that time was hopeful that Son John would enter politics on his return from the Navy. Morrissey volunteered to help - and soon became known as Joe's eyes and ears in Boston's tough 11th District, the fief of Honey Fitz, Jack's maternal grandfather. An eloquent speaker himself, Frank coached Jack Kennedy in political oratory, gave him a cram course in ward politics, and later competently managed his home office when Jack went to Washington...
...That cut the Giants' lead to 3½ games over Cincinnati, only two games over the incredible Los Angeles Dodgers, who won their sixth straight in typical Dodger fashion; trailing the Milwaukee Braves 6-1, they fought back to tie the score, won the game in the 11th inning when Shortstop Maury Wills beat out a bunt, stole his third base of the game (and 88th of the season), and scored on Lou Johnson's two-out single...
...chapels and monasteries dotting the surrounding countryside. When city fathers saw the 400th anniversary of his death approaching-biographers guess that he died between 1560 and 1566-they thought it high time to give a boost to his reputation. With funds from Rome, they restored the town's 11th century duomo and flooded its musty stone interior with fluorescent light; his paintings and frescoes were rounded up and mounted on great white panels. Now Brescia claims the handsomest exhibition ever (see color) of its own bright contribution to the Renaissance...