Word: elies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Belle Baker (real name: Bella Becker), 62, black-eyed vaudeville singer with a powerful "early-morning" husky voice, who meteored from poverty to fame with richly plaintive versions of Eli Eli and My Yiddishe Momme, star (1926) of Flo Ziegfeld's production of Betsy, by Rodgers and Hart; of a heart attack; in Hollywood...
...Landau nearly caught Fisk, even though he stumbled after clearing the last hurdle he fell across the finish line a scant two steps behind his Eli rival, but ahead of Yale's Keith Moore, who had upset him in the indoor Heps...
Later, Landau climaxed his spree by whipping Fisk in the low hurdles, with teammate Dave Rosenthal only a foot behind the Eli in third place...
Joel Landau proved the standout of the meet when he gave up a chance to beat Eli rival Disk Fisk in the high hurdles by entering the 100-yard dash 15 minutes earlier. He placed second to teammate Sandy Dodge's 9.9 to give the varsity an extra valuable three points...
Wharton gave the rain-spattered spectators a thrill as he came from dead last at the beginning of the stretch to overtake Eli Bob Skerritt and win the 440 in 48.3. Gordon just missed third, as he ran the distance in 48.8. Halpern outlasted Dodge in the 220 to win by a yard...