Word: diver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outside air temperature is 67° F. below zero and the pressure low enough to make a man's blood boil; though the little plane's cockpit was pressurized and air-conditioned, Bridgeman wore a specially designed pressure-suit with a helmet like a deep-sea diver's. A tiny windshield wiper cleared the face plate of the condensed moisture from his breath...
Dillingham, the sophomore diver who went through nine duel meets undefeated and then won the Eastern highboard title and finished second from the low board, will compete in the one meter tests today and three meter tomorrow. Diving coach Charlie Batterman has accompanied him to Austin...
...Hurry. The boss of Guinness is the second Earl of Iveagh (rhymes with diver), 76, pink-cheeked, white-haired great-great-grandson of the founder. Lord Iveagh, who by preference and habit drinks only Guinness or water, was twice winner (1895-96) of the Diamond Sculls at the Henley Regatta, pioneered pure milk production in England, now runs a dairy farm on his 23,000-acre estate in England. Lord Iveagh and the Guinness family still have controlling stock in the company which, in 1950, earned ?1.9 million ($5.3 million...
Eastern champion high-board diver Pete Dillingham will enter the N.C.A.A. championships Friday and Saturday, March 30 and 31 at the University of Texas. He and Crimson diving coach Charlie Batterman will fly to Austin next Tuesday...
Greatest disappointment for the Harvard stands was the defeat of Pete Dillingham by defending diving champion Roger Hadlich. After a brilliant start, the Crimson diver faltered, and the Yale ace won the low board championship of the East for the second year in a row. John Connor of Duke, the 1949 champion, was third, and Frank Manheim of Harvard sixth...