Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kirk Douglas first appeared last fall in "Letter to Three Wives." In that film he played a pensive English teacher. His second appearance gives him a chance to show off his musculature as Midge Kelly, a lightweight boxer who is nearly normal until he steps into a ring. Douglas is a competent boxer and a fine actor in "Champion...
Last season the Tigers, beaten one weekend in the H-Y-P Goldthwait Cup regatta by the Crimson went on in the next to polish off six lightweight crews, including Harvard, in the Wright Cup races. This afternoon on Princeton's Lake Carnegic, the Crimson will be out to follow Nassau's example, and Coach Haines has gone to the trouble of switching strokes in an effort to succeed...
...anyone will be the favorite today, it is Princeton. Every eastern college boasting a lightweight crew--Harvard, Yale Princeton, Penn, Columbia, Cornell, and MIT--is entered, and of these crews none sports such an impressive record as the Tigers...
...Crimson lightweight crews Saturday repeated last week's after-dark triumphs over MIT on the Charles by trimming the Engineers easily in all three 150-1b races...
...three lightweight races were originally scheduled for mid-afternoon, but the severe choppiness of the water in the Charles basin forced postponement. The freshman 'fifties finally raced at 6:45 p.m., while the jayvees and varsity rowed together at 7:15 p.m. in a race too dark to clock or estimate the margin of finish...