Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...famed British firm of Penguin set up a U.S. branch in Baltimore. Today Penguins are selling at the rate of 1,500,000 a year, and among the bestsellers are such titles as The Odyssey, The Canterbury Tales and Dante's Inferno. In 1953 Doubleday followed, with Anchor books. They were good to look at, with clean, modern covers, and offered (at 65? to $1.25 a volume) such fine old fare as Trevelyan's History of England, such first-rate modern fiction as Henry Green's Loving. Total sales of Anchor's 48 titles...
Renny Little, running his first 300 of the season, captured the event with a 31.5. He also ran the third leg on the winning sprint medley team of Al Wills, Mike Robertson, himself, and Dick Wharton, and the anchor leg on the winning mile relay of Robertson, Alan Howe, Wharton and himself...
...anchor of strong anti-Communist policy in Asia is Japan; Japan must be helped to develop markets in Southeast Asia, becoming the source of that area's heavy machinery and other capital goods...
...Although only Team Captain Charley Pratt won an individual event (60-yd. high hurdles), Manhattan College's trackmen ran off with enough third places to take the 34th annual intercollegiate A.A.A.A. championship. Deciding event: the two-mile relay (won by Syracuse U.), in which Manhattan's anchor man, Tom Lindgren, took time out between heats to rush his pregnant wife to a hospital,* came back to help earn a vital third. Final scores: Manhattan 27, Villanova 22½, Penn State...
...With anchor man Alpers benched, due to a back injury, the varsity mile relay team was off its usual pace and the Big Red edged it into second place with a mediocre time of 3:23.3. A healthy Alpers would probably have given the Crimson the race, for with him the team has dome nearly four seconds better than cornell's time. Since the Big red won only three events, a varsity victory in the relay would have meant the Heps title...