Word: loftus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wilmington, Del. GUARDS 65 Allgaier, Glen R. '62 19 5:11 170 Arlington, Va. 64 Baldwin, Stanley S. '61 20 6:0 204 Marshfield, Wisc. 63 Bates, Barry T. '60 21 5:9 183 Laureldale, Pa. 74 Craig, John C. Jr. '62 20 6:0 190 Tulsa, Okla. 69 Loftus, Gary M. '61 19 5:9 179 E. Cleveland, Ohio 60 Norton, Gerald P. '61 19 5:11 180 Baldwin, N.Y. 67 Shaughnessy, Stanley '60 21 6:0 188 N. Tarrytown, N.Y. 61 Tobriner, Matthew W. '61 19 6:0 195 Washington, D.C. 62 Weihenmayer...
Died. Francis Loftus Sullivan, 53, oleaginous (260 Ibs.) London-born menace of stage (Witness for the Prosecution) and screen (Great Expectations), who began trouping (1921) with London's Old Vic, won the 1955 Antoinette Perry Award for the year's best featured performance in his role of defense counsel in Witness; of lung cancer; in Manhattan...
...press swallowed the theory. The New York Herald Tribune and even the Christian Science Monitor accepted and adopted the Loftus line to a degree in pre-game articles. Only one sportswriter in the area, George Carens of the Boston Traveler, took the trouble to contact the Crimson swimming coach on the matter...
Because Danzig doesn't know swimming, or knew only what Loftus fed him, he wrote with a sneer, as if Harvard had been upset. He panned Pete Macky, Dave Hawkins, and Chouteau Dyer, barely recognized Jim Jorgensen's wide-margin records which prove his Eastern leadership and rank him among the top four in the country, and left out Gus Johnson completely. He may have been limited in space, but his greater limitation in knowledge proved more severe as he harshly and unfairly stated the Crimson...
...Yale's Loftus did some wrong in setting up this situation; he overdid his job. Henry Johnston of the Harvard sports publicity office may be charged with contributory negligence in the matter, for no sportswriter at New Haven ever received a word from him on the state of things...