Word: jumpers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foot broad jumper in James Grant, while the best Yale's Roger Miller has done is 22 feet, 11 inches. The other Crimson freshman, Pat Liles, will be the other broad jumper. In the pole vault, Yale provided Jim Beckman, whose 13 feet, 6 inches, is seven inches better than his nearest English rival...
...defection of Princeton's Rod Zwirner and Dick Knorr in the triangular meet, or of Cornell's John King in the Heps certainly did not hurt the varsity. Yet such an argument is valid only if the varsity had not had its own troubles. For had Joel Cohen, broad jumper Dave Gately, Robertson, Anderson, et al. not been injured, the varsity's power would have reached frightening proportions in comparison to its Heptagonal rivals...
...July, 1956, the enthusiastic sports jumper captained an American team at the Third International Parachute Championship, held in Moscow. Part of last night's discussion included films taken at this meet. He also demonstrated what the well-dressed sky diver wears. Main items of equipment: a main and reserve parachute, an altimeter, a slightly modified football helmet and goggles...
...mastermind that all is not well with the feared Crimson juggernaut. In reality, all is not well, for the team has been whittled down by injury. French Anderson and Mike Robertson, counted on for two places in the 600 are injured, as is Dave Gately, the leading broad jumper. Both pole vaulters, Barrett Churchill and Barnes Keller are ailing, but both will complete. Dick will not run in the two-mile relay, and hurdler Joel Cohen is still hampered by his bad foot...
Virginia's famed Mrs. Chipsian Lucy Madeira Wing, 83, resigned after 51 years as headmistress of suburban Washington's genteel Madeira School. Schoolmarm Madeira, a doughty New Dealer, kept her girls, including daughters of such notable capital names as Morgenthau, Hopkins and Saltonstall, in green jumper uniforms, out of lipstick, with chaperoned escorts, and under a stiff liberal-arts regimen. Her favorite mottoes, watchwords to two generations of time-tried Madeira maidens: "Function in disaster!" and "Finish in style...