Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another Crimson highlight of the meet, the varsity mile relay team ran away from both Yale and Princeton to win by a quarter lap in the excellent time of 3:22.4. Al Wills, a converted miler, ran a fast third leg which opened up a big lead for anchorman Dick Wharton. Mike Robertson led off, and he was followed by French Anderson...
Probably the most relaxed part of the whole trip was the tea break with the Eisenhowers at the White House. It was scheduled for half an hour, but the chief executives and their ladies exchanged gifts (an antique dueling pistol for Ike, an Uruguayan nutria lap robe for Mrs. Eisenhower, framed photographs of the Eisenhowers and a bust of George Washington for the visitors), enjoyed themselves so thoroughly that an hour slipped by. Then Batlle Berres hopped a plane for a Boston dinner date, spent the next two days being feted at breakfasts, luncheons and dinners and talking about boosting...
...This thang hain't much good any more. Ah put in a new fret-just took a pin and bit the head offen h'it-but h'it still don't play too good." When she plays, she puts the three-stringed instrument across her lap, then strums out the tune on the top string while the bottom two give off a thin, constant drone. For lonesome songs, she tunes the top string down a third to get a minor mode. Sample: Down in some lone valley, in a lonesome place, Where the wild birds...
Martignoni (5 12 pp.; Grosset & Dun lap; $4.95), is the year's bargain in children's books, a fat, discriminating collection of writing from Beatrix Potter to Phyllis McGinley, and illustrations by such immortals as Kate Greenaway, Arthur Rackham, Palmer Cox and others nearly as good. If there really is a comic-book menace abroad, this book is much the best way to cope with...
...remaining competitive events, B.U. took four first places to the Yardlings' two. Freshman winners were Joel Landau in the dash and Bill Gillen in the mile. The mile relay team of Dave Brahms, Dave Resenthal, Lee Barnes, and Al Gordon defeated its B.U. rival by almost a lap...