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Boars on Horseback. Preserves are nothing new. New Hampshire's 25,000-acre Blue Mountain Forest Inc. was stocked in 1890 with deer, antelope, moose, elk, caribou, and Himalayan mountain goats. Railroad Magnate Austin Corbin chased boars there on horse back with javelins. Today, there are nearly 2,000 preserves in the U.S.-most of them open to anybody with a box of shells and a handful of greenbacks. Some are nothing more than dusty, played-out farms, stocked with a few pheasants and partridges. Others cater to the whims of an affluent society...
E.P.E. is a Baltimore-based operation run by Corbin Gwaltney, 41, former editor of the Johns Hopkins Magazine, who in 1950 began turning that once stodgy journal into a model of lively thought. Gwaltney had begun to fret that most alumni magazines were too parochial to cover the main story that serious college graduates care about when they cast their minds back to school: higher education's trends, troubles and triumphs. His solution: informative inserts to tap the vast readership of all alumni magazines combined...
Beckwith is a slight favorite in the high jump, as is Blodgett in the pole vault and Tom Corbin in the javelin throw...
...inches, which broke his own meet record by nearly ten feet. Ed Bailey of Harvard was second. In the javelin throw, the first three men were all over the existing meet record. John Ahearn of Army won the event with a throw of 198 feet, followed by Tom Corbin (191 ft., 3 in.), Army's only other record in the field events came in the high jump, where cadet Gene LaBorne cleared 6 ft., 3 1/2 in. Marty Beckwith was second (5 ft., 9 1/2 in.), and Tony Leness tied Army's Fred Gordon for third...
...javelin and discus are, if not overpowering, at least solid. John Bronstein has been throwing the discus over 160 feet regularly, and in the javelin-throw. Boldgett and Tom Corbin are both throwing around or over 200 feet...