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Best performances of the afternoon came in the exhibition pole vault and weight throw. In the former, Olympic vaulter A. Richmond (Boo) Morcom beat out Harvard's 1946 IC4A champion Pete Harwood with a hoist of 14 feet. "The barefoot boy from New Hampshire" was invited to come here by Sam Felton, who took time out from his studies at the Business School to heave the 35-pound weight 54 feet, 11 3/4 inches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Practice Meet Shows Varsity Lacks Speed | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...Boo Morcom, "the barefoot boy from New Hampshire," will put on a special polevaulting exhibition at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow at Briggs Cage as a feature of the informal track meet between Boston University, Northeastern, and the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cornell Quintet Here Tomorrow; Morcom Will Show Vaulting Skill | 1/7/1949 | See Source »

...Sympathy was the right prescription for Big Bill. He began pitching brilliantly. He won the last six games he pitched for the Braves last year, and the first four this year. When Giant fans boo him now, he feels like thumbing his nose, but pretends dignified indifference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Retread | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...quite content that you should "own" the atomic bomb, kill the ump, boo the Dodgers and eat more steak than the unfortunates without your borders, but your mode of posing it in international magazines is (we think) not the very best way to win friends and influence people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 31, 1948 | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...faithful knew. When the revival meeting was over, about a thousand right-thinkers-Wallaceites, Communists, fellow travelers and troubled innocents-clumped determinedly two blocks east to the huge Roxy Theater. They lugged picket signs and clutched bundles of leaflets, which had been prepared in advance. They were out to boo the opening of The Iron Curtain, the anti-Soviet propaganda story* of Russian atom spies in Canada. (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Randan at the Roxy | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

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