Word: lead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commanding the flight from the lead plane was 50-year-old Major General Archie J. Old Jr., who coordinated the trip, kept in constant radio contact direct with LeMay's headquarters in Omaha. Texas-born Archie Old, like Curt LeMay, is no West Pointer, was an auto dealer with a reserve commission in the Air Corps until he was called to active duty in September 1940. Squarejawed, blue-eyed, thoroughly able, he rose with phenomenal speed in wartime to command the Eighth Air Force's 96th Bomb Group at a ripe 36, led the first shuttle-bomb raid...
Mike Robertson, running lead-off for the mile relay team, ran fourth at the end of the first lap, nearly seven yards behind Ed Holohan of Yale. At a lap and a half he passed Columbia and moved into third, still nearly seven yards behind the front-running Eli. By the first hand-off, he was second, less than five yards behind Holohan...
...move in, Kirschner hit him several times with his elbow. Morris slapped at Kirschner's arm, accidentally knocking the baton out of his hand. From then on, the race was gravy. He passed to anchorman Dick Wharton thirty yards ahead of second place N.Y.U., Wharton eventually increasing the lead...
Earlier in the evening, Wharton had won the Eddie Farrell 500-yard run, beating Basil Ince of Tufts and Mac Hassler of Williams. After spurting into the lead after the first lap and a half, Wharton literally coasted in to win by 10 yards in the slow, for him, time of 59.1 seconds...
...victory of the evening as it ran the Providence and Brown freshmen into the ground. Pat Liles, although boxed in badly at the start, passed the other two men during the third lap and haded off to second man Bob Hoyt 10 yards ahead of Providence. Hoyt opened this lead up until he had nearly a half lap on Providence, Art Cahn held this lead, and anchorman Ed Martin increased it to nearly three-quarters of a lap at the wire...