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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stanley, though probably unable to win the 200, could take third with a strong showing. Pitted against Frank Modine of Michigan State and Si Hopkins of Michigan (both of whom have done 2:22.7), Stanley's main competition for third should come from Gordon Collett of Oklahoma. In the 100, he will have to beat Navy's Bob Taft, who won the Easterns, plus arch-rival Joe Koletsky of Yale, who lost to Stanley last week at New Haven...

Author: By Thomas M. Pepper, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 3/25/1959 | See Source »

...after her 54th birthday, Glenna Collett Vare, six times women's amateur golf champion, played a 36-hole match with Rhode Island Champion Joan Bobel, 19, won two-and-one, and took back the state title she last held 36 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Jul. 1, 1957 | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...tiny (pop. 100) community of Blue Hole, tucked away in the Clay County mountains of Kentucky, everyone knows Widow Sarah Collett, and everyone calls her "Aunt." She is a kindly, grey-haired woman of 75 who has so many kinfolks in town that she can claim to be the grandmother, great-aunt, or at least a cousin of every boy and girl in the local one-room school. It was only natural that, with all her relatives, Aunt Sarah should be worried about the school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Something from Aunt Sarah | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

...Delta's President Collett Everman Woolman, 63, who will boss the new line, the merger was the latest in a series of expansions that have boosted Delta from a small, crop-dusting outfit to a seat near the top. A lifelong aviation buff, Woolman, while a student at the University of Illinois, worked his way to France on a cattle boat to a world aviation meet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Sixth Biggest | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

Last week Delta's big (6 ft. 1 in., 210 Ibs.), 6 -year-old Collett Everman Woolman was all set to dump Captain Eddie off his lap. Woolman got together with Northeast Airlines, Inc.'s President George E. Gardner on a plan to absorb Northeast, which runs from New York through New England to Montreal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Big Fifth? | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

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