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...jump, traditionally Harvard's weakest cevnt, the Crimson sky-raiders put in their best showing of the season, placing eighth, with a decent score of 72 points. Last weekend tife Crimson plummeted from third to seventh place because of their poor jumping. Harvard's top leaper was Bob Livermore, who placed twenty-sixth. The improved jumping score is attributable to an increase in the skill of the jumpers as well as to the fact that the hill this weekend was smaller and more manageable than the big Middlebury hill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Team Qualifies for Nationals, Won't Go Due to Lack of Money | 3/9/1965 | See Source »

...addition to Cingiser, Brown starts Barry Behn and Dave Brockway outside in the 3-2 set-up. In the corners are Greg Heath, a prodigious leaper when he feels like it, and Gene Barth, who is averaging 15.3 points per game and also rebounds well. Alan Young, a backcourt man, is the top reserve...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: HAPLESS CRIMSON QUINTET TO BATTLE BRUINS, YALE | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

That implacable leaper at conclusions, British Historian Arnold Toynbee, 72, now trains his erudition on a new target. He calls it "Madison Avenue"-by which he means not only U.S. advertising, but also the affluent society and much of U.S. business philosophy. In a remarkable, just published pamphlet-based on a speech delivered at Williamsburg, Va., in June-Professor Toynbee roundly condemns "Madison Avenue" as un-Christian and basically unAmerican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: The Real Enemy? | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

...Circus Leaper. As O'Connor sees it, the reason for his TV success is that television closely approximates the conditions of vaudeville, and vaudeville is where he learned all he knows about show business ("I had my first walk-on part when I was 13 months old"). His father was a County Cork strongman and circus leaper who could spring from a trampoline over the backs of four elephants. His mother was so determined a trouper that she kept on performing until three days before Donald was born, 27 years ago. With his parents and six brothers & sisters, Donald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Song & Dance Man | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

...matter how one may fell about ski jumpers, there is one quality they have which cannot be denied; every snow-leaper has guts, even though he threatens to spread them around the countryside at any time...

Author: By Farquahar Schussboomer, | Title: Look Before You Leap | 3/11/1948 | See Source »

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