Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some good hurdlers and middle distance runners, and Jack Hanley, 1945 IC4A cross-country winner, comprise the Big Green's scoring thrust, while Princeton has Cowle and Kelsey in the sprints, but little else. Yale, which the Crimson meets Saturday afternoon, glitters in spots. Columbia trailed in last spring's Heps...
Most peoples are gradually being debilitated and unmanned by factory produced comforts. Not so the sons of Tipperary. In Belfast last week, Pat Fitzgerald of Coolcrow, County Tipperary, beat 230 other runners to the all-Irish cross-country championship, but his speed (40 min. 31 sec. for six miles) was not the real news. Fitzgerald, like the other contestants from his county, ran the whole race barefoot, through two-foot-deep snow. Said a (doubtless biased) Belfast observer: "Aye, it's not unusual to see runners going barefoot in Tipperary, although the other folks there wear shoes when...
...first time, Victor Manuel learned that travelers are supposed to have passports and visas to cross borders. But people did not bother to explain things to him. They just locked him up in jail and wrote letters about him. In the end he was sent back to Mexico. There he served a jail term. Then the Mexicans persuaded Guatemala to take him back. In Guatemala he served another jail term...
...Republic's new Editor Henry Wallace* gets all that money can buy.) Unlike the ad-lean New Republic, which gives an outward appearance of respectable poverty, U.N. World's So pages were on slick paper, carried plenty of ads, and looked a little like a cross between Business Week and Survey Graphic...
Coach Bill Halsey's team made its best showing in the downhill racing events, where it placed fifth. The Crimson finished sixth in the slalom, downhill-and-slalom, and jump contests, and brought up the rear in the cross country and combined cross country and jump competitions...