Word: gentlemanly
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Dave Hawkins, who established an intercollegiate and American mark for the 200-yard butterfly with a 2:13.3 clocking, is expected to better that time at Oxford. He will have to if he hopes to beat the gentleman whose 2:15.8 record he broke at the Easterns last weekend, the University of Michigan's Bumpy Jones...
...Queen, Primate and Premier had bowed to the inevitable and admitted defeat. For 19 months, 40-year-old Captain Townsend, fighter-pilot hero of the Battle of Britain, had been quietly doing his duties as air attache in Brussels, refusing social engagements in favor of racing horses as a gentleman jockey, and scrupulously denying himself to newsmen. But now, with the air of a man suddenly released from an invisible leash, Airman Townsend began giving interviews, dropping pointed hints and adopting the manner of a man who could say much more if his lips were not sealed. "The word cannot...
...University chose McCurdy to assist famed Jaakko Mikkola, whom he recalls as being "a great gentleman whose passion was track." When Mikkola died in 1952, the year he was to retire, the University made an understandable choice, naming his colleague and good friend Bill McCurdy head track coach...
...Adams House Common Room is a dignified place. You'd hardly expect to walk in on a Sunday afternoon and find a gentleman beating on a conga drum. But there was one there this past Sunday with a dozen or so of this friends from Boston's rapidly-growing jazz underground. All were duly authorized, by the versatile Adams House Music society, for a concert of "Experimental Jazz...
After this, the confidence-man's masquerades multiply fast. He appears as a businessman and shakes down a merchant for a loan, by convincing him that he is an old acquaintance. He gulls a sympathetic gentleman with a billion-dollar worldwide relief scheme ("Missions I would quicken with the Wall Street spirit"). Ever extolling the power of positive thinking, the confidence-man takes the form of an herb doctor with a cure-all called the Omni-Balsamic Reinvigorator ("Health is good, and nature cannot work...