Word: biking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unfair publicity." The New York Herald Tribune carried Ogilvy's idea to its logical conclusion: "Can't you just picture the diplomat going through life turning in his car for a motor-scoot and sending Junior to Harvard? Then a switch to a bike and away goes daughter to finishing school...
Panic struck at 2 p.m. Dever had not been right behind the advance car and a rumor that he had been seen near Kirkland House spread among the politicos. Then, just on the hour, a HYDC agent pedalled up furiously on a light-weight bike. "I just spoke to a cop," he reported to Tobin, "and the cop says he saw Dever's car going up to the Law School. The cop says Dever is going to speak at the Law School...
...Fausto Coppi. In 1949 Coppi won bicycling's two biggest races, the Tour de France and the Giro d'ltalia, and was acclaimed "the greatest rider of all time." But the 1950 season was one disaster after another, including a.broken collarbone and a cracked pelvis suffered in bike crashes. Last year Fausto tried a comeback. He suffered, instead, a tremendous setback when he saw his younger brother, Serse, killed in a spill...
David R. Jackson '54 of Winthrop House had his bike stolen and returned within the space of six hours Monday night and made a nickel profit in the process...
Jackson noticed his bike missing from the rack outside the House Superintendent's office at 5:30 Monday but found it returned to its original place a little after 11 p.m. Attached to it was the following note: "Sorry I stole your bike. I broke a pin in the foot pedal. There is, I think, enough money in the basket to cover the damage...