Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard's Ulen is admired as the only non-griping competitor. "It's a futile business taking my boys down to New Haven," he says, "but it's also foolish to be bitter about their tremendous team. Tradition sends the good swimmers to Yale. I'd like to build up the same tradition and alumni interest here...
Andy, a fortnight ago, had won the 1952 winter Olympics' first gold medal when she skimmed flawlessly down the giant slalom course. Then, in the downhill race, Andy came a cropper, skidding to two bad spills. Such jarring tumbles might well shatter the nerve of an ordinary competitor, but slim-hipped, 130-lb. Andy was in high spirits last week as she inspected the special (i.e., shorter) slalom course for her final race. Andy skittered around like a frisky colt as Coach Herb Jocum and Husband Dave Lawrence plotted her descent. "Gee," said Andy with a carefree grin, "this...
...first U.S. competitor in the Modern (military) Pentathlon*-and a fierce one at that-Patton needed no excuses for his fifth-place showing behind four Swedish army men. Since then, and particularly after Patton gave West Point a competitive pentathlon plaque, first awarded in 1935, Americans have done even better in the little-known sport. The U.S. won the team title in the 1936 Olympics, and in 1948 Major George B. Moore (who was killed in action in Korea) won an individual second place. Last week at West Point, 13 officers and enlisted men, captained and managed by Captain...
...Ulen has the two men he calls his "little giants," Mulvey and Hugh Hartwell. Mulvey is a little bigger and stronger than his teammate, and usually competes as backstroker in the medley relay as well as in the regular 200-yard event. Eric Ueland is another fine individual medley competitor...
Last week, in his three-story house high atop San Francisco's Telegraph Hill, Clarence Lindner, 62, died of a heart attack. His chief competitor, the San Francisco Chronicle's Editor Paul Smith, provided an epitaph: "I respected Lindner because he outdid me on everything I ever tried...