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...Kip Smith tied for fifth place in the pole vault...
...Gerry running a good race behind Don Farley of Cornell, finished second in the two mile run. Farley's time was 9:36.1. Other varsity placers were Renny Little, fifth in the 600; Carl Goldman, fourth in the weights; Kip Smith, tie for third in the pole vault; the two-mile relay, fifth...
...best pole vaulter on the team was Kip Smith before he injured himself, but he is expected to be back in action shortly. Don Richards has also been doing a good job on the high...
Damage Repaired. Kiplinger's energetic coverage of the news has not always brought the rewards he expected. The day after Harry Truman's victory in the 1948 election, Kip's Changing Times was in the mail with a cover story entitled "What Will Dewey Do?" and blaring its "beat" in full-page ads (TIME, Nov. 8, 1948 et seq.). This massive blooper sent the circulation of all the Kiplinger publications plummeting. With characteristic candor, Kip admitted that "I made the mistake." With equally characteristic vigor (staffers estimate that he works as much as 70 or 80 hours...
Readers of Kip's crackling Washington Letter remember the information he passes along, tend to forget the tips and predictions that do not pan out. He consciously styles the letters to make readers feel that they are on a private pipeline to the best-informed Government sources ("Officials aren't worried about deflation, think they can stop it . . ."). Kiplinger writes every line of the Washington Letter himself, sometimes rewrites an item a dozen times to produce what he calls "sweep lines," i.e., sentences that have a single thought to a line, and that end with a punctuation mark...