Word: derek
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual, the Americans will have the edge in the field events and the hurdles, with the English holding sway in the distances. Oxonian Derek Johnson, runner-up to Tom Courtney in the Olympic 800 meters, appears the standout on the O-C squad. His times in the 440, 880, and mile are all impressively under the bests of the Americans. In the 880, he will encounter Yale's John Slowik and Cairns, while in the 440 he will meet Anderson, and Crimson captain Dick Wharton...
...Betsy Ross got the design for the American flag from the stars and stripes of the coat of arms, thought they should be brought to the U.S. With no rich American contingent in sight, the bidding opened at ?500, moved to ?1,000 before a young London dealer named Derek Cecil Davis began to bid. By the time the bidding reached ?2,500, it was between Davis and a dealer named Robert Jack. At ?3,200 ($8,960), the auctioneer held the gavel in the air for almost half a minute, then knocked Lot 40 down to Davis. Said...
...fast in the final lap at the Los Angeles Coliseum and almost gave the crowd the four-minute mile it had come to see. He finished in 4:01, ahead of Britain's Brian Hewson (4:01.4), Hungarian Expatriate Laszlo Tabori (4:01.6) and Britain's Derek Ibbotson (4:02). All four had already broken four minutes elsewhere; Ibbotson had come to town boldly predicting he would win in 3:56. "Our appearance," said the unabashed fourth-place Briton, "ought to be a challenge to the young fellows of the States." It was. Muscular Olympian Tom Courtney...
...Derek Wiman '60, who procured the film from the Hungarian Student Service. called it "vivid" and "realistic." He said that it included closeups of street fighting and pictures of Hungarians burning the Russian flag and cutting the red star out of their own flag...
...Derek Winans, a member of the Council, revealed that he "had been given assurances" that the University would furnish tuition to Hungarian students, whose room, board, and other needed expenses had been defrayed by freshman contributions...