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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stunned Elis then watched Jay Hayden, who usually swims backstroke, pick up a third in the 50-yard freestyle, and Ian Finlayson, a freestyle sprinter all season, swim the 220-yard distance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

With all this, the legislators found themselves working long, if not exactly hard, days. Wrote Representative Jay Hammond, 37, professional bear-hunt guide and the house's unofficial poet laureate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALASKA: A Heap of Lawmaking | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

Bayley's running mate, Mark K. Adams '60, of Leverett House and Chappaqua, N.Y., was unopposed for the vice-presidency. Repeating charges of machine politics, made earlier by Bayley's opponent, Jay C. Harris '60, the freshmen nominated one of their own number for the important post of operations director...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bayley, Adams Win HYRC Posts; Freshmen Rebel Against 'Machine' | 3/4/1959 | See Source »

...Jay F. Leary '60, of Leverett House and Union, N.J., was elected last night to the newly-formed office of second vice-president of the Harvard Young Democratic Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Elected to HYDC Positions | 3/4/1959 | See Source »

...directorship in the Erie Railroad-and so accelerated the decay of that calamitous line that Erie passengers felt safer "going over Niagara in a barrel." Fisk was a mere 36 when he died; yet, as a swindler, he could stand up to such Erie accomplices as Daniel Drew and Jay Gould. Indeed, in his watered-stocking feet, he stood only inches below the stature of Commodore Vanderbilt himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Jolly Robber | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

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