Word: firstness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first met Bud Collins, who writes for the Boston Globe, at a professional tennis tournament at Longwood last summer. It was the same day that a letter had appeared on the Globe's editorial page. somewhat of a billet-doux to Collins from Mrs. J. D. Garrott. It was a masterpiece of outraged matronhood...
Last year's freshman captain. Al Ackerman, followed with a narrow victory in the 200-free over the Chiefs' Tom Purcell. Ackerman picked first in the lottery Monday night, was only a half-stroke ahead until a spurt in the final 50 yards gave him a winning time of 1:53.8. a second better than Purcell...
...first relay. Springfield's Gary Spracklin opened up a three-yard lead, which his team preserved through the first 200 yards. But on the third leg, Crimson butterflyer Johnny Munk began to make up ground on his Springfield opponent, closing the lead to a foot with only the freestyle leg left. Toby Gerhart quickly evened the race and passed Steve O'Mearn in the final 35 yards to win by less than a second...
After captain Mike Cabalan won the first of his two freestyle events. Springfield finally got a first in the individual medley when Doug Moulton won a see-saw battle with Harvard's Dave Powlison. Moulton was out front early, but Powlison moved ahead at the turn of the backstroke leg before Moulton moved up to first again on his specialty, the breaststroke, and refused to yield during the freestyle...
...remarkable change of tone and import from Hawthorne's to Seastrom's Scarlet Letter can be traced in the distance between Seastrom's and Griffith's drama. One notices it first in Gish's acting. Her hands, which in Griffith persistently fluttered toward face and breast, are held in more tightly or used actually to grasp people. Seastrom gives their pure emotional energy a real application: Gish's gestures, rather than only expressing her spirit. become actions with physical and specific ends...