Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Penn averages close to 190 pounds and is stroked by former Canadian sculls champion Jack Guest. The eight skimmed by all opposition in its two races this season, setting a course record for the Childs Cup on Lake Carnegie. The time was 8:59.1 with a strong quartering wind. This clocking compares with Harvard's record-setting race last Saturday when the varsity finished the same course in 3:49.5, nearly ten seconds lower...
...accident, he ran the fastest mile ever run in New Zealand and one of the fastest ever run anywhere: 4:04.4, three seconds off the world record. Last week he was in Philadelphia, on leave from college, where he is studying to be a teacher, as a special guest for the invitation mile at the Penn Relays. Another special guest: Mai Whitfield, two-time Olympic champion half-miler, who was making his mile debut...
...Princeton, N.J., the University of Pennsylvania crew, stroked by Canadian Jack Guest, former single sculls champion, beat Princeton by a length, Columbia by two, in the 75th anniversary Childs Cup Race...
...guest stint with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony last week, Violinist Tossy Spivakovsky offered a careful balance: something old, something new. First he flooded the hall with the singing airs of Mozart's Adagio in E. Then, tucking his fiddle under his chin again and staring intently at his stubby fingers, he launched into the amiable and sometimes pyrotechnic moods of Gian-Carlo Menotti's two-year-old Violin Concerto. As always, his tone was luxuriant, his pitch impeccable, and he brought the music to full-blooded life. From Manhattan's experienced audience, the modern work drew...
...life." From 1934 to Whitehead's death in 1947 at the age of 86, Price went back again and again, afterward recording each conversation. Once, Whitehead saw him to the door and offered this nightcap: "I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine." But Price took away a record of one of the most probing minds of the century in spontaneous action, kicking ideas around...