Word: dave
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Three hurlers worked as the Crimson went after its third straight Greater Boston League title, and although Bob McGinnis got the win, only finisher Dave Brigham was really effective against the Engineers...
...Surveying 1956 track records, the International Amateur Athletic Federation approved some impressive achievements. Among the new world record holders: Air Force Lieut. Parry O'Brien with a 63 ft. 1¾ in. shot put, Duke's Dave Sime with 20-sec. 200-meter dash...
Their digging resulted in the roughest, riskiest exposé ever carried by the 107-year-old Oregonian. It earned them the American Newspaper Guild's 1957 Heywood Broun Award.* And last week, as a grand jury handed down indictments in Portland, as the mighty Dave Beck fell off his high wagon, Turner and Lambert reaped the even greater satisfaction of knowing that their unlikely tale of local corruption had unfolded into a major national story...
Rshface & Bug-Eyes. Without the Oregonian's disclosures, the U.S. Senate's McClellan committee might have looked in on the International Brotherhood of Teamsters merely as part of a general inquiry into the abuse of union welfare funds, and, through Teamster Boss Dave Beck's longstanding income-tax troubles, probably would even have penetrated to the Teamster chieftain's big-time peccadilloes. But Turner and Lambert gave McClellan's men a slam-bang first act that stirred immediate nationwide support for the inquiry and propelled the investigation straight to Western Conference Boss Frank Brewster...
Emmet, who was seeded second in the tournament, was upset by unseeded Dave Mason of Pittsburg in a close five-game match. Stephen Vehslage of Haverford (Pa.) School defeated Dan Morgan, Jr. of Yale in the other semi-final contest of the tourney. Eliminated in the quarter-finals were Ralph Mason Jr. of Pittsburg; H. Von L. Meyer Jr., Middlesex School, Concord, Mass.; John Ireton, Toronto University; and Romer Holloran, Exeter Academy...