Word: benjamin
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Capt. Dyke Benjamin sliced 11 seconds off the course record at Franklin Park yesterday as he led the varsity cross-country team to its fifth consecutive victory in a 17 to 40 triumph over the University of Massachusetts. Benjamin paced the Crimson harriers in the record time of 25 min., 36 secs...
...Titian, whose birth date is in some doubt, was about 94 when he painted his great Battle of Lepanto, was between 96 and 99 and working on the Pieta at his death. Izaak Walton compleated revising The Compleat Angler at 83. John Wesley was preaching regularly at 88. Benjamin Franklin was a power in the Constitutional Convention at 81, served as president of Pennsylvania to 82. Noah Webster did a new edition of his dictionary at 82, was busy on yet another when he died at 84. Verdi was nudging fourscore when he composed Otello and Falstaff, had passed...
Captain Dyke Benjamin turned in another winning performance yesterday, leading the cross country team to victory over Columbia and Penn in a triangular at New York's Van Cortlandt Park. The final score, 27-49-55 was not as decisive as it could have been, however, since not all the varsity performances were as consistent as Benjamin...
...undefeated Crimson captain encountered his first serious competition of the season in Penn's sophomore star Dick Tracy and Cuban-born Jose Iglesias of the Lions. Two years ago, Iglesias ran Harvard ace Pete Reider into the ground on this same Van Cortlandt course, and Benjamin's 26:01 yesterday was 50 seconds slower than the 1956 winning time. But Iglesias, hampered by injuries and "upper-classitis," could do no better than third yesterday...
...punch provided by sophomore Jed Fitzgerald was missing. Fitzgerald dropped back from Benjamin, his usual running-mate, and finished seventh, behind Crimson runners Willie Thompson and Mack Brown. Brown, an unpredictable runner, finished ahead of both Ed Martin and Jim Schlaeppi, who have been among the top runners in past races. Buster LaFrance ran tenth in the scoring...