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Jaakko Mikkola will dust off his stop watch for the first time this fall and get down to what is instead of what seems with the running of the annual University Handicap this afternoon. The first group of runners will bounce away from the starting line outside Newell Boat House promptly at 3:30 o'clock...
Although the "Handicap" is open to anyone in the University most interest will focus on the six harriers who will be starting from scratch. They are Ardan Albee '50, Bill Baker '50, Jack Cogan '50, Vince Moriarty '47, Paul Friedrich '49, and Charley Worth '47. Absent from this list will be Captain Huna Rosenfeld '46, Bill O'Connor '49, Herby Pratt '46, and Frank Gurley...
...Pratt hasn't showed up yet, and Gurley, Captain-elect of the track team, is definitely out for the current cross country season because of a heavy academic schedule. Additional time trials will be held next week, but according to Jaakko, the ten or twelve top men in the Handicap race today will be the ones who will face Holy Cross and M.I.T. a week from tomorrow...
Ickes "was as prickly a customer to handle in those days as he is today. . . . He was so anxious to keep graft and politics out of the public works program that he practically spent money through a medicine dropper. Ickes' slowness in making decisions was sometimes a real handicap. . . . Public works projects were frequently [so] slow in getting started [that] expenditures for them were . . . made after instead of before the crises had passed their peaks...
...room for three days of general conditioning before the candidates are divided into individual House teams. Nine squads, seven from the Houses, one from Dudley, and one culled from the upperclassmen in the Yard, will compete for the grid title now held by Kirkland House and the 150 point handicap toward the Straus Trophy...