Word: bille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Picasso by knocking down his pretty nude, entitled La Belle Hollandaise, to the Queensland Art Gallery of Brisbane, Australia for $154,000. Back in 1905, Picasso painted the picture on a trip to Holland, apparently gave it to a traveling companion in payment for his half of a hotel bill...
...wide-awake and on the scene for the doubles, however, as he and Tom Freiberg won that title, defeating the pick-up Crimson team of Fred Vinton and Bill Wood in the final. Yale nearly had to default this one, too, as Freiberg, viewing the singles from atop the M.I.T. tennis shack, had difficulty getting down from his perch for the doubles. He finally made it, though, and the match went...
...Canadian referee issued to the Crimson a total of 15 penalties, one of which resulted in the Nomads' margin of victory. The Rugby Club president Bill Morse said after the game that the official, although certainly not partial to Toronto, interpreted the rules in a manner to which the Crimson was unaccustomed...
...Cahn came from nowhere in the stretch of the 880 to catch Bill Hanne of Army, who had whipped him easily indoors. With the javelin all but over, Tom Blodgett won the event with his next-to-last throw, and he took first in he pole vault with a 13-ft. effort on his final attempt...
Dartmouth fell the next day, 81 2/3 to 58 1/3, in the Stadium, as coach Bill McCurdy juggled his lineup to prevent a slaughter. Benjamin ran a 4:12.1 mile for the day's best performance. Finally the Crimson took third in the Heptagonals, with Benjamin scoring ten of the team's 40 points and deKiewiet continuing undefeated in the high jump...