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Wilde was one of six other victors in the regattas. Four of them are pictured above standing on the balcony of Weld Boathouse: (from left to right) senior Richard Kirk, winner of the half mile 155 pound single scull race; junior Kon Culbert, who took the three-quarter mile junior singles duel; Wilde; and freshman Pete Neaman, first in the novice single race over a half mile course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wilde Wins Darcey Trophy; Kirk, Culbert, Neaman Score | 5/25/1954 | See Source »

...Junior Kon Culbert earned three points to finish fourth in the 177 pound class and put the varsity wrestling team in a fourway tie for eighth place in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Tournament, held over the weekend at Cornell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers Place 8th in Easterns; Culbert Wins 4th | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

Leading the Crimson squad will be Captain Chick chandler, wrestling in the 157-pound class, land Kon Culbert at 177. Culbert this season has won eight bouts by pins and lost two by decisions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Wrestlers Compete Today In Eastern Tournament at Cornell | 3/12/1954 | See Source »

...Later he got a master's degree at New York State's College of Ceramics. Not content with formal training, Gilbertson also sat at the feet of Pueblo Indian squaws to learn their pottery methods. Then he crossed the Pacific and apprenticed himself for two years to Kon-jiro Kawai, a ceramist much honored in Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Classics in Clay | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

Ever since Kon-Tiki, the publishing tide has run strongly seaward. And so, apparently, have readers' tastes, with such books as The Came Mutiny, The Sea Around Us and The Cruel Sea, following each other as successive bestsellers. Yet few present-day writers seem interested in following the old Conrad tradition which dealt with the "glorious and obscure toil" of seamen. Of those who do, France's Roger Vercel, author of Salvage, Troubled Waters and a 1938 Book-of-the-Month Club choice, Tides of Mont St.-Michel, is perhaps the best. In his latest novel. Ride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Conrad's Trade | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

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