Word: jumper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yardling high jumper Matt Reynolds cleared 5 ft. 11 in. on his final attempt to win the freshman track with Andover last Saturday, 50 1/2 to 48 1/2. The Crimson found tougher opposition than expected, and the meet was close until...
...When I finish a book," said Pulitzer Prizewinning Novelist Robert Penn (All the King's Men) Warren, "I feel as I imagine a parachute jumper must feel when he first bails out. He doesn't know for sure that the damned thing is going to open." Did he land safely with his newly published World Enough-and Time? "Yes . . . You always think the last book best...
Several awards were presented at the banquet, most important of which was the James L. McLaughlin Memorial Trophy, donated by members of last year's freshman squad. McLaughlin, a popular hurdler and broad jumper from Montana, died during the summer. The award, for the Freshman "who combines natural ability with a great deal of team spirit," west of Gilbert Martin Schiff, of Cincinnati and Wiggles worth Hall...
Awards for greatest improvement went to sprinter-broad jumper Dave Carter, weight man Fred Ravreby, 17-year-old freshman hurdler Bob Twitchell, and quarter-miller Ed Grutzner...
Robert Stern '50 of the College unit of the N.S.A. explained that his organization had undertaken to procure cheap travel accommodations for students in the face of unprecedented demand and after the recent withdrawal by the government of the Marine Tiger and Marine Jumper, which carried hundreds of students to Europe last year...