Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...triangular meet next week with Yale and Princeton, the Crimson will be the underdog. A strong Yale team is favored to retain its Ivy League cross country crown...
...field. Lowe won by more than 250 yards, and his time for the five-mile course, 25:34, was one of the best ever recorded at Franklin Park. In front from start to finish, the Brown ace showed the form that may carry him to the Heptagonal crown later in the fall...
Only 16 months ago, Britain was rocked by a Sunday Pictorial story that began with the words, "I, Donald Hume, do here by confess . . ." The lurid confession was that Hume had hacked to pieces a car dealer named Stanley Setty -a murder that in two separate trials the Crown had never been able to prove. Convicted only of dumping Setty's dismembered body from a hired airplane, Hume got off with a mere eight years as an accessory. Upon his release, secure in the knowledge that he could never be retried for the murder, he sold his gaudy story...
...only surprise of the still young season was at Philadelphia, where Steve Sebo's Penn Quakers pulled a mild up-set over defending champion Dartmouth. This win and Penn's non-Ivy win in its opener against Lafayette make the Quaker eleven a definite favorite for the crown...
...Love You." The son of a rich Ceylonese public servant whose devotion to the British Crown won him a knighthood in 1907, Banda had long steered a perilous course through the tricky tides of Asian politics. He was raised a Christian and educated at Oxford, where his debating skill earned him the admiration of his English classmate, Anthony Eden. But once back home, Banda renounced Christianity in favor of Buddhism, threw off Western dress in favor of long white sarongs, and plunged into the movement that was to bring Ceylon independence within the Commonwealth...