Word: 36th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crimson skiers could finish no better than 36th at the fifth annual Victor Constant Memorial trophy races this weekend at Stowe...
Competing in an open meet against top college competitors and ski instructors, Dwight Black finished 36th in the two day Alpine combined and freshman Ernest Dane finished 35th. The meet for individual laurels was won by Dartmouth's Tommy Corcoran, who placed ninth in the downhill, but won the slalom. Middlebury's Dough Burdon, winner of the downhill, fell on the slalom, as did all Harvard skiers, but still managed to come in third...
...addition to the opposition of Protestant groups, Clark faced the old enmity of Texas' Tom Connally, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who holds Clark responsible for the death of a lot of Texas boys of the 36th Division at the Rapido River. Connally had said that if the President resubmitted Clark's name the general would be asked if he wants to stay in the Army. "If so," threatened Connally, "I'll tell him to get back in the Army-just as far back as he can-and stay there...
...entirely different point, Texas' Senator Tom Connally was ready to oppose the nomination. Clark, he said, "showed himself unfit" for any high position by the way he directed the Rapido River battle in Italy during World War II. The 36th Division (Texas National Guard) suffered heavy losses there, and Texans can't forget...
...Star game, with four home runs, over the American League, 8-3; in Detroit. ¶British Miler Roger Bannister, Britain's Amateur Athletic Association championship, with his best time ever, and best in the world this year: 4:07.8; in London. ¶Heavyweight Rocky Marciano, his 36th straight victory, over clumsy Rex Layne, with a crushing sixth-round knockout; in New York. Marciano's showing put him in line to take on the winner of September's heavyweight championship fight between Ezzard Charles and Joe Louis. ¶Tony Trabert, the National clay court tennis title...