Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usually around go sign up; after the first couple of lessons about a third drop out. Those who survive the first shock of culture generally stay with it. Chicago, which began with one class a year ago, now has 31 classes, will jump to 70 next year. Detroit, Indianapolis and Cleveland, with one class each now, plan to expand to 30 apiece...
...Vissi d'arte aria from Tosca lying flat on her face, the Seguidilla from Carmen flat on her back. In The Girl of the Golden West she rode a bronco on stage, and as Thai's she once celebrated her conversion to Christianity with a record high-jump that landed her in the hospital. All this musical whoopla endeared Jeritza to her public, if not to her fellow artists. Snorted Soprano Lilli Lehmann: "If you're a real artist you don't have to lie down on your face to sing a big aria...
...without its drawbacks. All three of the men running for the first time after being shelved with adjusted either had recurrences of their old till or contracted new ones. Dong Panic after taking third in the 100, pulled a muscle on his first broad jump attempt. Similar fates befell Ted Washington in the quarter mile and Cliff Wharton in the low hurdles...
Yale's two other firsts came in the javelin and the broad jump. The first was won by Irv Bouton with a toss of 169 feet 1 inch and the second by Ed Burdick with a leap of 21 feet 2 5/3 inches. "Joe Holbrook and Ed Wyman took third, respectively, in these two events...
Leads of 5 feet 9 inches landed Pete Garland and Jack Harrigan in a tie in the high jump. Pete Harwood won the pole vault with 12 feet 8 inches. Owen Torrey and Tom Howard were tied with Bob Clarke of Yale for second at 11 feet...