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...Neville qualified third in the 50-yd. free finals, but despite the exhortations of the Crimson bench, he finished second to the favorite, Rex Hand of Navy. Hand broke the 21-second barrier with a new Eastern record time of 20.998, while Neville's 21.297 was just fractions off his school record performance of a week...
...Illinois," a man of suave courtliness, a leader of the Boy Scouts and the Red Cross, he had gone to good schools (Brown, Cambridge, Northwestern Law), and married the daughter of former Mayor Anton Cermak. Kerner's father who had worked himself up from poverty to the federal bench, beamed with pride as he swore in his son as a US attorney. Mayor Richard Daley then recruited Kerner as a blue-ribbon candidate to run for Governor in 1960 against William Stratton, whose administration had been plagued by scandal...
...away but going nowhere, Smokin' Joe surfaced long enough to sputter, "I quit!" Afterward, he panted: "It was like I was throwin' punches at the water and the water kept hittin' back. My big aim was to keep from drownin'." The Cincinnati Reds' Johnny Bench was a more serious competitor in the golf tournament. But two drives into a mangrove swamp erased his early lead and he finished second to Stefanich, who posted a 41 for the nine-hole event...
...Bench came back to win at bowling with a puny one-game score of 131, boasting that he was taking it easy on his hapless rivals. "Why, just yesterday," he crowed, "I rolled a 629 in a three-game practice series." Tennis's Rod Laver easily won the table-tennis finals, and Hayes used his long legs to run off with first-place honors in the 100-yd. dash with a tortoise-like clocking of 11.5 seconds. After the first day of competition, though, the leader was Auto Racer Peter Revson. Winner of both the swimming and tennis events...
...hope our losing didn't turn any of the applicants away," Lee said. He reasoned, however, that losing most of the matches this year might have been attractive to the high school wrestlers. "If they figure they won't be sitting on the bench and could possibly be wrestling varsity in their first year, they might be persuaded to pick Harvard over big time wrestling schools like lowa State, Oklahoma or even Lehigh and Penn State," he added...