Word: gyms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says Phog, "they ask me about Wilt the Stilt. I've seen them all: Joe Lapchick,* Clyde Lovelette, Hank Luisetti-all the top men, and this kid is the best I've ever seen. For 20 years I've used a twelve-foot basket in my gym; as far as I know, I'm the only coach who does it. Wilt can touch the rim of that basket on a jump. He can jump 24 inches off the floor. I've never seen a tall man in my life who could equal it. This...
...squash teams in the East will meet today when Harvard and Navy open their intercollegiate seasons in Hemenway Gym...
Hagerty spoke to the White House press corps from a new address: a Gettysburg basketball court that had been trans formed into headquarters for the 48 newsmen covering Ike's sojourn. One end of the white and rose room-which still looked like a gym-was the assembly area for Hagerty's twice-daily briefings...
Present use of the nine and a half story neo-gothic structure is far below capacity, ranging from 550 to 850 students a day. Payne-Whitney officials estimate that during 1942-45 ten times this number were in the gym daily, because of compulsory physical training for all undergraduates and an exhaustive physical fitness program for 3000 Army Air Corps trainees...
Frankie's father, Martin Sinatra, was a run-of-the-gym boxer who fought under the name of "Marty O'Brien," a quiet little man who could stand up to a beer and mind his own business. Frankie's mother, "Dolly" Sinatra, was another slice of pizza altogether. That sturdy little woman could stand up to anything, come Hague or firewater, and minded everybody else's business along with plenty of her own. Dolly, who says she started out as a practical nurse, was soon helping Marty run a little barroom at the corner of Jefferson...