Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollis Hall accumulated 39 points to win the freshman intramural swimming crown last night in the Blockhouse. Matthews placed with 25 points, and Weld Hall followed with...
Only Crimson champion in the three day competition was Ted Norris, who won the 1500-meter freestyle crown Thursday night. In so doing, Norris edged out Yale's Emil Estoclet, favored swimmer in the race...
...assured of a tenpoint lead after the first two houts, west on to win the House wrestling championship last night with 19 points to Kirkland's 16, All four men in the 128 and 136-pound classes were Puritans. Thayer's 13 points were enough to cop the freshman crown...
...Robert Low Bacon is the leading Republican hostess, a tall, tweedy woman with an air of conscious aristocracy who, in the nervous summer of 1948, was heiress presumptive to Mrs. Mesta's crown. At her small, select salon in the John Marshall house there is no foolishness about fun or songs. Each table is assigned a topic of conversation and their hostess sees that her guests stick...
Vera's singing when she began broadcasting with Ambrose and His Orchestra in 1937. But she really won her queen's crown during the war with a program for the troops called Sincerely Yours. So many of them heard her telling Private Bill Jones his wife was well, then following up with Bill's favorite song, that standard questions of returning British troops were 1) "What's left of London?" and 2) "Is Vera still alive...