Word: gene
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Harvard winners, in addition to McCormick and Tootell, were Bill Lawrence in the pole vault, and hammer thrower Bob Forsyth. Gene Harrigan wound up in a three-way tie for first in the high jump...
...Party, born in 1919, was a rachitic child dropped on the U.S. doorstep by the Russian Revolution. The U.S., historically crowded with rebels and reformers-vegetarians, Fletcherizers, yogi followers and deep-breathers; Know-Nothings, Single-Taxers, Abolitionists and seekers after Utopias; Tom Paines, John Browns, W. J. Bryans and Gene Debses-always had room for one more heresy, even a foundling of communism...
...month apartment. She gave callers the once-over through a peephole in the front door, although she chattered loudly and publicly over the pay telephone in the lobby. Curiously, the Dennises had no telephone. Now no longer active in the party, she brought up their second baby, Gene (bom in 1942), and prepared large meals for her chubby husband. The Dennises were scarcely noticed by the neighbors until the congressional inquiry disclosed his identity...
...weak spots than the rest, they were favorites to be the American League champions again. The Indians had been shrewder, and luckier, in filling another of baseball's great deficiencies: they had fresh pitching talent that could survive nine innings. They had big (6 ft. 3½ in.) Gene Bearden, who won 20 and lost 7 last year, plus assorted ablebodied veterans. In Manager Lou Boudreau they also had the smartest, hardest-hitting shortstop in baseball...
Rounding out Harvard's six firsts in the field events were wins in the javelin by Charlie Keith, the pole vault by Bill Lawrence, and the high jump by Gene Harrington...