Word: louisianans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chris Pardee and Charles Njoku will give Harvard strong representation in the high jump, competing against a field that includes one seven-foot jumper, Louisianan Dick Ross. Pardee, who has cleared 6 ft., 10 in., has apparently recovered from an ankle sprain that kept him out of last week's meet against Boston College. Njoku topped 6 ft., 6 in. against the Eagles and may be ready to soar even higher in the Garden...
...matter how the rest of the series went, one man who came out ahead was Giant Manager Alvin Dark. A teetotaling, tithing Louisianan who plays golf in the 70s, onetime Shortstop Dark, 39, sparked the Boston Braves to a pennant in 1948, did the same for the Giants in 1954, when he teamed with the mercurial Eddie Stanky to give Coogan's Bluff the best double-play combination in the National League. A pennant winner in his sophomore year as Giant manager, Dark runs the club with the solicitude of a tenderhearted drill sergeant. He never swears...