Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Track coach Bill McCurdy has added cotton gloves to his team's equipment. The gloves enable his relay men to spot their receivers more easily and to keep a better grip on the baton, the mentor feels...
Although no other eastern team is using gloves, McCurdy said that the idea has bees tried before. "Several coaches attempted to use rubber surgeon's gloves but found that they were too tight and slippery. So we tried cotton gloves and they seem to have worked out quite well...
Both McCurdy and Farrell feel that it is too early to predict that cotton gloves will become standard college track equipment. "It would be interesting to see the Dartmouth team wearing green gloves at the upcoming Knights of Columbus meet," said McCurdy. "Indeed, a gloved track meet, with Harvard wearing crimson, Yale blue, and Princeton orange, would be a most colorful sight," Farrell added...
...absent, or already drafted for the pros, or both. Alabama's stubborn refusal to let a Negro play with white men cheated the spectators out of a chance to see jolting Jim Brown, who had looked magnificent in Syracuse's 28-27 loss to T.C.U. in the Cotton Bowl, but Brown had already been drafted by Cleveland. Iowa's Kenny Ploen, star of the Hawkeyes' 35-19 win over Oregon State in the Rose Bowl, refused to appear because he wants to keep his amateur status and play college baseball this spring...
...work for Marsh & McLennan. "We insure anything," says President Herman Dunlap ("Dutch") Smith. Like Lloyds of London, M. & M. has grown big (2,720 employees, offices in 29 U.S. and foreign cities) by never turning down an acceptable risk, will as gladly work out insurance for a $20,000 cotton shipment as a $2,000,000 offshore oil-drilling rig, or a $20 million pipeline. While M. & M. does not carry the actual fire, casualty, loss, or accident insurance itself, it acts as an expert broker, helping companies place their insurance as cheaply as possible. One result of such diversification...