Word: baxter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Private Freddie Dwyer and while the two were tangling, Denmark's Gunnar Nielsen ran off with Santee's world indoor mile record (TIME, Feb. 14). Thoroughly chastened and uncommonly quiet, Wesley went home to Lawrence, Kans. to train. When the starter's gun cracked for the Baxter Mile last week at the New York Athletic Club games, Wes wanted to be ready to unwind with the race of his life...
Santee was finished; Nielsen was fading fast. While the two leaders had run themselves rubber-legged, Dwyer had timed himself perfectly. He crossed the line in 4:06.2, a new Baxter record. Some 65 yards back was Nielsen, the world's fastest indoor miler. And three yards behind him staggered Wes Santee. the Kansas cyclone that had blown itself...
...James P. Baxter IV '41, president of the Chicago Club, on the other hand, stated that his group admitted without restriction. This group--the oldest in the country--has at several times during the past year refused to return to Chicago area hotels which refused to admit Negro Club members to their dining rooms...
Also to be honored are four Eastern college presidents: John Sloan Dickey, Dartmouth; Charles W. Cole, Amherst; Victor L. Butterfield, Wesleyan; and James Phinney Baxter, Williams...
...Sunday audience is considered grownup enough to hear-as they did this week -readings from Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus (on NBC's Anthology) and to enjoy an appraisal of Ralph Waldo Emerson by the University of Southern California's Professor Frank Baxter (CBS), who pretends to be nothing more or less than an interested and interesting teacher...