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...Captain Derrick Nicholas leads his improving Yardling team in quest of its fifth straight win against a strong Brown freshman sextet...
When all the preliminaries were completed, the construction crew razed the old stands and set up on the spot a complete outdoor foundry for casting cement slabs. A stone crusher, a cement mixer, a narrow-gauge railway running around the field, derrick towers, travelling cranes, and a fully-equipped saw mill were...
Even thirty minutes for four miles is lightning time in anybody's boat. No standard course records are kept, Dennison believes, but he noted that anything near six minutes for one mile is excellent time. Thirty-Minute club members have flashed over the mile distance in 6:22. Derrick M. Wilde '53, who won the Senior Scullers' one-mile race in the University regatta earlier this month, posted a time...
...Derrick Wilde '53 whipped his way to a one-length victory over strong but rough John Carnes 3L yesterday in the University Senior Singles championships. Wilde led all the way. Sam Hoar 3L war third and Hugh Hermann 3M fourth over the mile-long Basin course...
...away the most ingenious of all British puzzle "setters" is a Sussex schoolmaster named Derrick Somerset Macnutt, whose crosswords appear each fortnight in London's Sunday Observer under the byline Ximenes (a Cardinal Inquisitor of Spain). Ximenes' puzzles, for which he is paid 10 to 15 guineas ($30-$44) apiece, contain clues that range from pure cipher through anagram to outrageous pun. Samples: "Pleased a bag ?14 lighter" in four letters;** "Important city in Czechoslovakia" in four letters ;†† "Shortage of bats at a high level" in six letters...