Word: madison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ladies and gentlemen," the announcer said, "the Dutch national anthem!" At the Millrose Games in Madison Square Garden, 16,000 track fans rose respectfully while the band tootled an unfamiliar tune in honor of The Netherlands' miler, stringy Willy Slykhuis (rhymes, roughly, with dike mouse).* Then the band played the Swedish national anthem, for Miler Ingvar Bengtsson, and a baritone sang The Star-Spangled Banner. The crowd sat back to wait for Slykhuis and Bengtsson. No foreigner had ever won the Wanamaker Mile, but now that the mighty Gil Dodds had retired, the invaders seemed to have a fine...
...last month, they unhorsed the University of Kentucky wonders.* Back home in St. Louis, ticket-sellers turned away 4,000 customers the night they beat Bradley University. In Buffalo, before another sellout house, they trounced Canisius. Last week, with nine straight victories under their belts, the Billikens moved into Madison Square Garden to play Long Island University-and pulled out the biggest crowd (18,486) of the season...
...Power-seeking Hubert Humphrey first had to force a showdown within his own sprawling party. For months, Humphrey lieutenants stumped the state, lining up delegates to fight the Wallaceites and Communists in the Democratic-Farmer-Labor ranks (Humphrey broke with Wallace after Wallace's pro-Soviet speech at Madison...
...nine runners-ups became members of the Permanent Class Committee with the three Marshals. They are: Luis Amescua of Winthrop House and Mexico City; Robert Lynn Fischelis of Kirkland House and Philadelphia; Hiram Howell Hoelzer of Leverett House and New York City; Paul William Knaplund of Kirkland House and Madison, Wisconsin; David Eli Lilienthal Jr. of Adams House and Rockville, Maryland; Lawrence Francis O'Donnell of Dunster House and Taunton; John Rossen Over-cash of Kirkland House and Springfield, Tennessee; Gunther Karl Rosinus of Kirkland House and Wyoming, Ohio; William Dowse Weeks of Dunster House and Boston...
Paul W. Knaplund of Kirkland House and Madison, Wis.: Varsity Crew Captain; Kirkland House Committee; Francis H. Burr Scholarship...