Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adirondacks. Lonesome Len chartered a small plane and took off in hot pursuit. In the mountains the pilot had trouble finding a landing strip, finally came down on a baseball diamond, after buzzing it until he broke up the ball game. Len made the last, 38-mile lap by taxi and boat. "When I saw him then," recalls Gladys, "I knew. And he seemed to, too." The next spring they were married...
...boxed during the first half of the race as John Ingley of Cornell, the eventual winner, built up a big lead. Anderson's finishing sprint made up part of the deficit, but he was unable to close the gap enough to win. Pete Reider went into the last lap of the two-mile even with Lou Quantannens of Army. His finishing kick was too much for the cadet as he won going away by ten yards in 9:41.5, his best time of the season...
...passed to second man Al Wills even with Bob Scobey of Yale. Wills handed third man Mike Robertson a three yard lead, and Robertson gave anchorman Wharton six yeard on Cornell's Ingley. Both Cornell and Army passed Wharton to put him six yards behind at the gun lap. Increasing the pace, he passed the Army runner, reached the final corner at Ingley's shoulder, and outsprinted him to the tape, winning 18 inches...
...next event, the 220 freestyle, Jim Jorgensen continued the record-setting as he defeated Dartmouth ace Ernie Drosdick. Although Drosdick had done a 2:10.9 earlier in the season, he was unable to withstand the terrific pace set by the Crimson captain and cracked on the final lap. Jorgensen's time of 2:08.0 broke the old pool record of 2:08.6 set by John Marshal of Yale...
...photographers argued their case, some 500 pictures and 200 ft. of movie film were taken in two days without distracting anyone. At one point, Justice O. Otto Moore was surprised to learn that a photographer on the witness stand was taking movies with a camera resting in his lap. The judge ordered the photographer to approach, then said: "I could not hear the camera until it was only three feet away." Though a decision will be made later, Justice Moore said: "I'm overwhelmed...