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Dick Williams, a pole vaulter on the varsity track team, won the University Handicap race along the Charles yesterday afternoon. Running with a five minute handicap, Williams defeated Phil Robertson, a sophomore hurdler, by about five yards...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: Better Late Than... | 10/1/1957 | See Source »

...open invitation to all members of the University, cross country coach Bill McCurdy last night announced the fifth annual running of the University Handicaps this afternoon at 4:45 p.m. The run will begin in front of Newell Boat House and cover the varsity Handicap Course along the river...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Handicaps to Be Run On River Course This Afternoon | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

Last year's winner, Pat Liles '60, the first freshman ever to win the race, had never run cross country, but with the help of a five-minute handicap from the benevolent McCurdy, romped in well ahead of his nearest competitor. Liles later went on to win his numerals as a member of the Yardling squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Handicaps to Be Run On River Course This Afternoon | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

Personality: has scholar's bespectacled face, broad-shouldered body of an athlete. Excels at tennis, swimming and skiing, plays 15-handicap golf ("Maybe I'm good enough to play with President Eisenhower") and first-rate bridge. Much sought after by Parisian hostesses. Arrives late to work, leaves the office every night by 9 to dine with the family in his elegant Avenue Foch apartment. (Madame Gaillard, widow of one of France's wealthiest financiers, has two children by her previous marriage, a son by this one.) His chief handicaps: a malicious wit-"Nothing outside, nothing inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: FRANCE'S DARING YOUNG MAN | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

...Round Table, the Kerr Stables' bay colt, had to run all the way to make off with the fifth annual $100,000 United Nations Handicap at Atlantic City. After stumbling at the starting gate, Round Table responded to a hard drive, held off Tudor Era by a whisker and scored his eighth straight victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Sep. 23, 1957 | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

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