Word: contests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last fall, Kristofferson began behaving exactly as he had done back at Pomona College, where he had earned a Phi Beta Kappa key, won conference recognition as a football end, commanded his R.O.T.C. battalion, won four out of 20 prizes in the Atlantic's collegiate short-story writing contest, played a top-chop game of Rugby, and kayoed an opponent in a Golden Gloves elimination fight before getting iced himself. At Oxford, Kris immersed himself in the dark waters of Anglo-Saxon, spent a few ergs of his seemingly inexhaustible reserve of energy playing Rugger for Merton, winning...
...Chicago mayor, as usual, in this year's primary campaign, Splinter Candidate Daly howled that the TV stations had slighted him in favor of the other candidates-Democrat Incumbent Richard J. Daley and Republican Timothy P. Sheehan. The FCC agreed, ruled that Daly had time coming. Rather than contest the decision, most stations grudgingly put Lar ("America First") Daly (for legalized gambling, against public schools) on the air. WBBM-TV, the CBS station in Chicago, was one which chose to fight. It fired a petition to Washington, asking the FCC to reverse itself...
...Chalmers '59 and Jane Fisher '61 are winners of the contest sponsored by the Radcliffe Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the Chapter announced at its spring meeting Tuesday night...
Miss Chalmer's essay, "The Golden Squire: A Study in Spencer, Aristotle, and Temperance," was judged the best piece of criticism entered in the contest. "The Homecoming," by Miss Fisher, was recognized as the best original piece of creative writing...
This meet will end what Coach Brooks has called a "good, wholesome season." After defeating Army, Navy, Cornell, and Dartmouth--all of whom this year had their best teams in history, the varsity lost a one-sided contest to Yale. The reasons for the varsity's traditional second-place finish are simple--against Yale, as Brooks put it, we had the ponies, not the horses...