Word: belchers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard, was last in his heat of the 440 with a 5:22 clocking and did not qualify for the finals. Frannie Powers turned in 5:06.4 to take third in his heat and finished fifth in the finals behind Cutler, Ned Parke, of Princeton, Callahan, and Bob Belcher, of Yale...
With Springfield's Harry Rawstrom out, Eric Cutler stands a very good chance of triumphing in the quarter-mile. Princeton's Halsey and Parke, Elis Bob Belcher and Gordy Mustin, and Captain Justin Callahan of Columbia will be the men to beat. Cutler is likely to take a few seconds off his personal record of 4:59, while he is sure to receive further competition from his perpetual swimming-mate, Frannie Powers, and Ed Hewitt, who has improved greatly this season...
...only the great are painted by Britain's adept portraitists. Genteel humor has never been despised by the Royal Academy. Year ago Caricaturist George Belcher, who stalks about Chelsea in a large black hat and satin stock and who prefers char ladies and costermongers for models, made headlines at the Academy with a portrait of a fat man playing a cornet. Quick to repeat a good thing, he sent two similar portraits to this year's Burlington House. Best was Brother Fetch, a London commissionaire in full regalia of the Order of Buffaloes, elegantly curling his buffalo horn...
...long since forgotten by successive Classes or Editors. His chief pride was the first issue of the Magenta, ancestor of the Crimson. On the evening of January 25, 1873, ten members of the Class of 1874 assembled in the rooms of Mr. Cirrk. These were Eugene Nelson Aston, Samuel Belcher Clarke. Thomas Corlies, Frank Child Faulkner, George it win Haven, Edward Higginson, Charles Austin Mackintosh, Henry Childs Merwin, and Calvin Proctor Sampson...
Notable were George Frederick Belcher's humorous paintings. Of his I/ Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls he said last week, "It is a picture of a shabby though very happy gentleman who is obviously a street musician. He is at home, seated at his table. You can see he has been enjoying himself - there are heads and tails of her rings on a plate, a bottle which has contained stout, and a glass which betrays the fact that he has drunk the stout. There is also a half-empty packet of cigarets. The happy gentleman is all alone...