Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...race, Dyke Benjamin became the first Crimson runner ever to win the Heptagonals, the first to win every contest of the regular cross-country season, and the first harrier captain to lead his team in every regular-season race...
...Crimson captain had won every race of the dual and triangular season, beating such Ivy League stalwarts as Nat Cravener of Cornell, Penn's Dick Tracy, Columbia's Jose Iglesias, and Bob Lowe of Brown. His "refusal to be beaten" had become one of the sure things in a cross-country season of uncertain depth and unpredictable performances...
...anything can happen in the Heps. Since the Heptagonals beginning in 1939, Harvard has had "lots of seconds," but never a winner. Some of the Crimson's strongest runners of past years have gone undefeated, only to lose to someone who happened to have a particularly strong day. And cross-country being the largely psychological sport that it is, the sight of ten or tweve pedigree runners from the Ivy League and the service academies is enough to unnerve the stoutest heart...
...varsity cross country team will be fighting for third place today in the Heptagonal Meet at Van Cortlandt Park. Army is a virtual shoe-in, with five juniors who have all run faster than Dyke Benjamin on the New York course; and Navy, second last year, should not be far behind...
Holly Golightly, 18, is a cross between a grown-up Lolita and a teen-age Auntie Mame. A piquantly wacky ex-hillbilly who lives in a Manhattan upper East Side brownstone, she is a kind of expense-account tramp; as she puts it in her own countdown, "I've only had eleven lovers...