Word: lefting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their youngest teammate, 18-year-old Lieut. Joaquin D'Harcourt had yet to win an individual victory at the Garden. His chance came in the jump-off for the International Military Special Challenge Trophy, when two Chileans faulted. That left only four competitors for the trophy-all members of the Mexican team. One by one the three veteran riders started on the course, then pulled their horses up sharply for a refusal so that young Lieut. D'Harcourt would be sure to bag his first Garden trophy...
...Because they set off such side effects as drowsiness and dizziness in some patients, the Food & Drug Administration had kept them on the prescription list. Doctors, noting that many cold symptoms seem to be allergic in nature, have tried the anti-histaminics on cold sufferers, but the varied results left them far from enthusiastic...
...hope that we will never again have an outstanding football team," said President Robert Gannon of Fordham University two years ago. Under his rigid de-emphasis program, the once-powerful Ram shrank to an emaciated shadow of its old self. Then Father Gannon left Fordham...
...Open champion and Snead's main rival for golfer-of-the-year. In the second round Sam hooked a tee shot into the rough for one bogey, chipped poorly for another, but wound up with a 70. Then Sam finished up in a blaze that left little doubt about who was golf...
...determinedly friendly Norman Brokenshire, who has been on radio almost as long as static, has lost his faith in his trade only once. In 1926, after two years as a staff announcer on New York's WJZ, he left radio for vaudeville, convinced that "as time goes on, the announcer's role will become less & less important." That was the first of more than a dozen exits from the industry-and the only voluntary one-during the quarter-century in which convivial Norman Brokenshire has fought his well-publicized battle with alcohol...