Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Featuring the fighting tonight will be the battling in the heavyweight class. Charlie Kessler has been forced to drop out of the competition but Joe Nee and Jim Gaffney of the Varsity gridmen will be in there with a Freshman named Tudor Gardiner. Just how these three will be divided up remains to be seen, but it makes little difference. Gardiner is really a good boxer, as well as a topnotch wrestier, and he is going to give the two big upperclassmen a run for their money...
Next come a Royal Court on May 5 and another May 6, the U. S. Embassy deciding which U. S. women shall drop three curtsies to the King & Queen after being presented by Ambassadress Mrs. Robert Worth Bingham, gratis. English women have often paid up to $1,000 to an Englishwoman who has been presented at Court and so become entitled to present a "friend," but this form of purchased entree to Buckingham Palace is open only to women whose husbands are subjects of the King or who are themselves British...
...then of course there are Dick Cooke and Johnny Macionis and Charlie Rogers. Charlie, by the bye, may be another ace in the hole. He's been doing some remarkable swimming in practice, and has not yet reached his season's peak. We'll only drop a hint--Charlie was a good Freshman back-stroker...
Possibility of a new pitching find loomed in Briggs Cage yesterday as Clarence M. Boston, Jr. '39, better known on the gridiron, demonstrated his speed and drop to Varsity coaches. Though he has experience in summertime ball, this was Boston's first formal appearance in a Harvard practice...
...seven minutes. "It seemed a hell of a lot longer than that to me!" he said. Workers from above lowered a looped cable through which he inserted his legs, permitting them to hoist him to safety. Not until then did he unclench his teeth from his pipe, let it drop down, down into...