Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neither has raced this spring, and the strength of their personel obviously cannot be determined from the previous year. M.I.T. though, is always a threat, and four years ago they had two lightweight crews which won at Henley...
Planner Lemnitzer sees eye-to-eye with outgoing Max Taylor, wants a mobile, hard-hitting and lightweight Army, with more airlift and more manpower. Such wants are exceedingly unpopular in the non-Army reaches of the Pentagon. But whether Lemnitzer gets them, military men are already betting he will be a future chairman of the Joint Chiefs...
With the opening of the lightweights' racing schedule little more than four weeks away, the oarsmen face an intensive training period. The first lightweight race will be on April 18, followed a week later by the first heavyweight contest...
...Both the lightweight and heavyweight varsities are stocked with men returning from last year's very successful boats. Last spring's lightweights won a great victory in the Henley Regatta on the Thames River, and the heavy crew was second in the East. Furthermore, last season's freshmen should provide an outstanding group of newcomers...
...special request of Franklin Roosevelt, who said it was his alltime favorite), once earned $15,000 for a single rendition. Vaudevillians Abbott and Costello joined forces in the '30s. Costello was the son of a Paterson, N.J. silkmaker. In younger, leaner days he had been a lightweight prizefighter and a Hollywood stunt man. Abbott had sold tickets in a theater box office. Their partnership hit the big time with the 1939 Broadway musical Streets of Paris, the big money with the 1941 film Buck Privates. Through 1951, they were almost always among the top ten moneymakers in Hollywood, pulling...