Word: beekman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson, the only college team over to win the National team crown, has turned the trick five times. Its last title came in 1932, when Coach Barnaby was playing number three. Beekman Pool, top man on the '32 varsity, won the singles crown in the same tournament, giving the Crimson both the National team and individual titles the same year. The '50 varsity was eliminated in the semi-finals, played in New York...
...twelve is a puzzle to her schoolmates, a trial to her teachers, a constant irritant who sends her unsympathetic father's blood pressure zooming. She lives on Manhattan's fashionable Beekman Place, but she runs wild with a gang of dead-end kids on the banks of the East River. The other children at Miss Drew's School for Girls are delivered and fetched by governesses; Meg comes clattering up on roller skates, a tense, skinny gamin who wears a big hunting knife and dreams of being suckled by a lioness. When a furtive little man makes...