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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Track Coach Jaakko Mikkola issued an SOS for freshman pole vaulters, high jumpers, and broad jumpers yesterday. "My gosh, we have nobody, in these events," he reported. "We have a pole vaulter doing about nine feet and that's all." Interested candidates may contact Jaakko at Dillon Field House or in Briggs Cage any afternoon between...
...start. Johnny Rockwell, who led team scoring with 16 points, put the Crimson ahead 1 to 0 with the first of eight free throws, and Dick Covey followed up with a layup to make it 3 to 0. Then Holy Cross took over. Andy Laska hit from 20 feet out, Frank Oftring put in a charity toss, and Dermie O'Connell scored to pull his team into a 5 to 3 lead...
...Yale newspaper, which telephoned Seattle, reported that the chartered DC-3 carrying 27 New Haven-bound students and three crew-members was from five to ten feet in the air when one wing dipped and touched the runway...
...field of stars. The east wall will be more ambitious than anything Matisse ever tried, combining all 14 Stations of the Cross-from the Condemnation by Pilate to the Descent from the Cross-in a mounting S-curve of pictures. Since Matisse cannot work for long on his feet, he will be unable to paint the pictures on the walls directly, plans to do them on tile which will afterward be baked and placed in position. He hopes that the painting will have the same sort of impact that he himself once received from Giotto's frescoes at Padua...
Outside the drab yellow walls of the Covent Garden Opera House last week, Londoners stamped their feet in the foot-numbing chill. Some had been waiting six hours for the gallery door to open. Backstage, Choreographer Frederick Ashton, in a skirt and a high wig, rushed around with last-minute instructions. The occasion was the first new full-length, classic-style ballet Western Europe had seen in 50 years...