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...repair job with bits and pieces they've got in their shed. When it's fixed and it works, it's a real victory that you've done it yourself and it hasn't cost a thing." That frugal ingenuity is shared by many rural women, says Wendy Hucker, of the Pioneer Women's Hut museum at Tumbarumba, New South Wales: "People around here still use vinegar and newspaper to clean the windows, kerosene for getting grease marks off clothes, bar soap and cold water for grass stains." The "culture of capability," as Thomson calls it, was born of hardship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bicarb Soda Solution | 3/26/2006 | See Source »

...program, Columbia's Ben Johnson zoomed through to his third I. C. 4-A title, but Pitt's Edgar Mason placed second to give Pitt the team title with 30½ points to Columbia's 30. Only I. C. 4-A record-breaker was James Hucker of Cornell who cut 4/10 sec. off the 220-yd. low hurdles mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Track & Field | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...Watson will hover nearby, having beaten champion Donovan once this winter. Harvard has a threat in this event in the nature of Captain Bill Schmidt, who ran second and third to the Green boys all winter. In the lows Donovan runs up against the returning 1935 champion, James H. Hucker of Cornell, who may upset Donovan's supremacy...

Author: By Rockwell Hollands, | Title: Lining Them Up | 5/4/1937 | See Source »

...seconds in the B.A.A. meet, and with no middle distance events scheduled, all the runners will be fresh and ready to hit a new low time. Johnny Nevius, who broke the Yale-Cornell meet record last week with a 50.2 second leg will make up the team with Ham Hucker, brilliant veteran quarter-miler, Jim Pender, the sprinter and Walt Tatum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/26/1937 | See Source »

Cornell will bring the team that will probably give Harvard the stiffest competition. The Big Red has an exceptional sprinter in sophomore Jim Ponder, while another second year man, John Nevius, is their outstanding quarter miler. Hamilton Hucker, 1935 IC4A and the present National A.A.U. low hurdles champion, is back to strongthen the team still further...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRACKMEN ARE DRILLING FOR QUADRANGULAR MEET | 2/18/1937 | See Source »

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