Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yardlings Art Wills, Don French, and Jim Whatmough captured the first three places respectively in their meet, after Dartmouth's front-running Ron Marshall collapsed 50 yards from the finish line. Marshall got up and came in sixth, behind his teammates Bill Hull and John Riker. Ken Wilson, eighth, and Jim Gregg, ninth, clinched the meet for the Yardlings...
Comp. Lit 166, fifth in 1951, and Social Sciences 1, which was sixth, experienced declines. The former is now 14, the latter 17th. Government 1a is in sixth place with 329 students, Biology 1 right behind it with 314, and a surprising addition, Music 1, is eighth with 311. Government 155a holds ninth place with 289 students, while Humanities 4 rounds out the list...
...concentrated most of their fury on the fight for White Horse. The U.N. could not tolerate Chinese on the hill. It stands near the Chorwon corner of the old Communist "Iron Triangle"; from its crest, enemy observers could look across 15 miles of flatland into the heart of the Eighth Army's fortified positipns...
...Washington, World War II hero Maynard H. ("Snuffy") Smith, 41, who won the Medal of Honor for some cool-headed shooting and lifesaving on an Eighth Air Force bomber, was sentenced to ten days in jail for turning in a false report in a suicide hoax. Smith, it was claimed, was trying for some publicity to help boost his chances for becoming governor of Virginia. The hoax: as a young mother pretended to jump from the sixth floor of a Y.W.C.A. building, Snuffy bravely crawled out on the ledge and "persuaded" her to come back...
...scoring after that, with Hubie Maguire second in 22:25 and Hal Gerry third right behind him. Hank Knapp and George Gooding of UMass took fourth and seventh, but Crimson Captain Emil San Soucie, Marshall Childs, Bruce Phillips and Frank Nahigian were the deciding men with fifth, sixth, eighth, and ninth places respectively...