Word: jim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Penney, frail and ailing, had gone West for his health from Hamilton, Mo., where he grew up in poverty on the farm of his father, an unpaid Baptist preacher. From the age of eight, young J.C. had to buy his own clothes; at 19 heard his dying father murmur: "Jim will make it. I like the way he has started...
Bannister, who arrives here Friday from New Haven along with 21 teammates, will probably have to go under 4:10 to beat Yale's George Wade. Wade, Vic Frank and Jim Fuchs will compete in the National Intercollegiates on the Coast Friday and Saturday but will fly back in time for Monday's meet...
...least three meet records will be jeopardized Monday in the Stadium. Bannister and Wade will be shooting for the 4:12.6 mile mark Jack Lovelock established in 1933; Jim Fuchs seems sure to set a new record in the 16-pound shot; and George Appel may break the pole vault record...
...Jim Crow. Some Negro leaders resented the very steps, small and often grudging, that were making the South a more tolerable place for the Negro to live. They argued that every attempt to build better segregated parks and schools was only perpetuating what they were fighting to end: Jim Crowism. It was probably a valid conclusion. Many white Southerners were working unselfishly to reduce the Negro's squalor, illiteracy and ill-health, to end his disenfranchisement and ease his fear of violence. Perhaps a majority of these same Southerners still insisted that segregation was an institution that must...
Commencement crowd or no, Yale will probably do the scoring for the Americans. Wade, pole vaulter, George Appel, the Hipple twins in the high jump, and shot putter Jim Fuchs are the Eli headliners...