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Mikkola has entered teams in the sprint and mile relays. He also has individual competitors in three events: Pete Dow will run the 100-yard dash, Bob Twitchell the high hurdles, and Bob Mello, standout pole vaulter, will be the only field events competitor...
Peter Dow, who as a freshman made the Harvard-Yale team which competed in England last summer, will compete in the 100-yard dash. Robert Twitchell is entered in the high hurdles, and Bob Mello in the pole vault...
...gallows-like frame hung "cloud-chamber bowls"; Partch had salvaged them from the discards of the University of California radiation laboratory. He added an ordinary clarinet and saxophone (Partch has not yet learned how to adapt wind instruments to his scale), and a special cello and bass. An added dash of unconventionality: the student musicians (abetted by some professionals from Oakland) wore black robes and hoods...
Weil-Bred. Romanticized in the novels of Jack London, sled dogs were immortalized after the epic dash to carry diphtheria serum to Nome in 1925. Since then, though the airplane and bulldozer have displaced the Husky as Arctic freight haulers, the Huskies have served man well. Shearer, president of a Boston furniture store, served in World War II, as did many of the other dogsled racers, with the Arctic search & rescue units of the Air Force...
...surprise. The Yale junior got off the best broad jump of this season when he leaped 23 fee, 4 5/8 inches to beat pre-meet favorites, Bill Geick and Bob Mello. Lewis' second upset came when he edged the Crimson's Bob Twitchell in the 60-yard dash. Twitchell, however, earlier picked up one of the Crimson's four first places by taking the hurdles...