Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elsewhere at the Garden Saturday night, freshman high jumper Dick Barwise hit six feet, one inch--good, but not nearly good enough to do any damage against the kind of competition he was facing...
Both of them had crossed the Atlantic with European titles on their minds. In Prague's Winter Sports Stadium last week, Canada's 19-year-old Barbara Ann Scott had hers to defend, and New Jersey's 18-year-old Dick Button...
Last year U.S. Champion Dick Button had come within a blade of winning the men's world figure-skating championship at Stockholm. When the judges picked Hans Gerschweiler of Switzerland instead, Sweden's press had howled: "The best skater lost. . . ." Last week at Prague, in the European men's championship, flashy young Button beat the man who had beaten him. Losing to Gerschweiler in the school figures, Button came from behind to clinch the title by his boldness and abandon in the free skating. That made him the first and last American title-holder (next year...
...same story in the high jump, where Crimson freshman Dick Barwise will compete. Barwise, whose father will be in charge of the high jump tonight, has negotiated six feet three inches, the same height his rather cleared at Brown. Barwise the younger will try to set a family record tonight and he'll have plenty of competition to push him. There will be Dave Albritten, second in the 1936 Olympics, and winner of last year's national A.A.U. high jump with an effort of six feet, six inches; and Irv Mondshein, N.Y.U. handy...
Tenor Regan, who is now 41, joined the New York police force in 1931. While a rookie, he captured a killer, and was promoted into plainclothes. He was just a dick, singing for his own pleasure at a party, when a CBS executive heard him, auditioned him for the Burns & Allen show. Then Movie Director Clarence Brown saw him dancing with Gracie Allen at a party, and signed him for a picture. Since then he has made more than a dozen unsensational B-movies (Sweet Adeline, Sweetheart of Sigma Chi) and a fairly sensational $100,000 a year...