Word: legging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Giggle at First Sight. Young Christian, born to Albert and Adele Herter in Paris, grew to be a strikingly tall, alarmingly thin lad who had to wear hip-high steel leg braces for six years to correct a curvature of the spine-forerunner of the osteoarthritis that was to afflict him in later years. ("I had no trouble with it for 40 years. Then it came back. Retribution, I guess.") He became a passable golfer, tennis and baseball player during his Harvard years (he is still an avid Boston Red Sox fan), but despite these normalities, many of his Harvard...
U.S.C. Coach Jess Mortensen is still polishing Long's form. "We're hoping to get him a little lower over his right leg so he can be pushing on the shot a longer period of time. He also has a tendency to let the shot drop a little too low just before the throw." But he speaks of Long's ultimate capabilities with awe: "If I say 70 feet, people will think I'm crazy. But if I don't say it, this boy will probably...
...American and the Japanese are like Cain and Abel in the primeval jungle of human conscience. Quicksand sucks down the American; the Japanese hauls him out. When gangrene threatens the Japanese, the American pours his only packet of sulfa powder into the ugly leg wound. The pair learn each other's names-Alvin and Kimura. When Alvin moons about his girl in Sedalia, Mo., Kimura mimes the death of his wife in an air raid. In such scenes, Actor Hayakawa makes Kimura grow wordlessly in stature and sympathy. Actor Piazza cannot prevent poor, blathering Alvin from being a bore...
Starting behind the plate for the Crimson will be Chris Norris, Dwinell's teammate at Choate. Although hampered by a leg injury, Norris is a good hitter and a strong catcher. His job is threatened, however, by Bob Selling...
...country squad, and then as the work-horse of the indoor team. Particularly memorable was the Yale meet last February, when he and teammate Bob Knapp each ran three and one-half miles, with Mullin winning the mile and two-mile, and Knapp contributing a come-from-behind anchor leg in the two-mile relay...