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Harvard won two of the three doubles matches, but of the six single matches Alan Wolf and Alan Blackmer, at second and third positions, were the only Crimson winners. Crocker Snow, a Middlesex senior, captured first singles, defeating Nick Wolf...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman 'B' Tennis Team Loses | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...surprised these days to see some youngster win an individual tournament. Such oldtimers as Patty, Fay Crocker, 37, Louise Suggs. 34, and Betty Jameson, 38, are understandably subject to fatigue. Veterans of nearly two decades on the road, they date back to the days when the late Babe Didrikson Zaharias boosted ladies' golf into the big time. The wonder is that they still win as much money as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pros Against Par | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

...Frederick Greeley Crocker Trophy was presented to John A. Simourian '57 for his "perseverance, hard work, and improvement" as quarterback of the 1956 team. This award is voted each year by the players on the football varsity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jordan Says Football Can Help Raise Support for College Drive | 12/5/1956 | See Source »

...principal of Delaware's Bridgeville Consolidated School reported that his visiting Scot was "so delightful" that even his kilt was accepted "without gibes from the males and with downright enthusiasm by the females." In Gig Harbor, Wash, a high-school student won an award in the Betty Crocker "American Homemaker of Tomorrow" contest, took her British home-economics teacher along on the winning trip to Washington, D.C., Williamsburg and Philadelphia. "It was," said the Briton later, "one of those things that could only have happened in this fabulous country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Ambassadors | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...burglar who broke into Mrs. Jeanne Hopkins' home, ripped up linoleum between the living room and the dining room, opened a can of varnish and varnished an old newspaper, made a batch of French toast in the kitchen, baked a fudge cake from a recipe on a Betty Crocker Mix box, stole a ten-inch pie plate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 16, 1956 | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

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