Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tigers smashed pool records in both relays, taking the medley relay in 3:40.7 and the freestyle relay in 3:14.3. The latter performance broke the mark set by Yale's 1963 unit that included several 1964 Olympians. The visitors from Old Nassau also pulled and pushed several Crimson swimmers to their best performances of the season...
Pardee, broad-jumping for the first time in two months, shared first place with Yale favorite Paul Jones at 23 ft. 29 in, and then later broke his own meet record in the high jump with a 6 ft, 3 in, leap. Harvard's Harvey Thomas placed third in the broad jump at 22 ft, 4 1/2 in, and Charles Njoku's 6 ft, 4 in gained a share of third place in the high jump...
...outstanding individual performances from the Crimson. Double-winners Jim and Baker and Chris Pardee each set a meet record, and Jeff Huvelle broke his old University record in the 600-yard...
...growing. But he kept on running, and he never stopped jumping the competition. He was too tiny-5 ft. 3 in.-to compete physically, so he decided to lead with his right: he became a stenographer. The day before he was to compete in a worldwide shorthand contest, he broke an index finger. He worked his way around the injury by jamming his pen through a potato, then took dictation while holding the potato. At the age of 18, he was pronounced, potato and all, the best stenographer alive. Bernard Baruch took him on as a personal secretary, and William...
...Single Hobby. One of seven sons of a Saskatchewan General Motors dealer, Murphy-like most of his brothers-became an auto salesman while still in his teens. During the Depression he went broke selling Chevrolets in the farm town of Manteca, Calif., but bounced back as an Oldsmobile dealer in Honolulu. He made his first financial killing by stockpiling trucks just before the start of World War II, reselling them at a hefty profit. In 1963, he paid $3,800,000 to buy 90% control of the then-floundering Honolulu Iron Works Co., which makes sugar mills. By chopping...