Word: captains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Formerly undefeated Dartmouth could not keep up with a Crimson pace which produced six of the top seven places, Captain Keith Colburn, winning his first varsity cross-country race, lowered the course record by more than a minute with a time of 28:47.2. Sophomore Mike Koerner finished within eight seconds of Colburn, and Tom Spengler, who won last week's race at Cornell, came in third...
Married. Corrine Huff, 28, onetime beauty queen and former secretary and No. 1 companion to high-living Congressman Adam Clayton Powell; and Patrick Brown, 25, until recently Powell's Bimini-based fishing-boat captain; both for the first time; in an Anglican ceremony; in Bimini, the Bahamas...
Died. Rod La Rocque, 70, movie matinee idol of the '20s and '30s, who rose to stardom in such silent swashbucklers as Captain Swagger and The Love Pirates, married the Hungarian heartthrob Vilma Banky in one of the film colony's splashiest weddings in 1927, and in defiance of all Hollywood tradition remained married to her forever after; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills...
...there were administrative problems on this special day. After a bowl of Captain Crunch at the training table. I started trying to recruit enough guys for a full team. I really had to wonder about the strength of certain biological drives in Crimson people when only three guys there, including me, agreed to go. And one of them was a business board type. So I got friends to complete the team of six. I brushed my teeth before we left; I had never brushed my teeth before a football game before. Yes, this...
...football player, a quarterback-linebacker named Jan Ann. She had the best arm of any of us, could kick a 24-yard field goal, and intercepted one of my passes. She was awesome. The females on our team were fairly unimpressed with our athletic ability. Our charming center, the captain, instructed us near the end to get some points on long passes and not worry about throwing to girls. But two attempts failed, prompting them to start bitching about how short we were, and therefore how we couldn't do anything. This was a real blow, especially when...