Word: mats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME, July 31: "Said Dwight D. Eisenhower, who thought the [atom] bomb might be considered for matériel targets in Korea, but not against human beings: 'We're trying to stand before the world as decent, just, fair people, not as judges to exterminate those who oppose...
...people and to the Army of South Korea it meant that there would be American planes overhead to help them; that there would be American warships, American weapons and matériel of all kinds. To them it meant that the world's most powerful nation had clearly sided with the distant, strange little republic of Korea...
Pickett attended Yale from 1942 through 1944 and competed with the varsity mat team there. He entered the Navy in 1944 and served for two years, going to Syracuse in July, 1946. While in the Navy, Pickett gained the Far Western A.A.U. championship and received the Navy's Junior National A.A.U. Outstanding Wrestler Award. At Syracuse, Pickett was forced out of competition by an injury, after which he became freshman coach. A fullback on the Yale varsity football team for two years, Pickett has two brothers, Herbert and Lawrence, who were also outstanding Eli grapplers...
...shorts threw tomatoes at each other. Nick Gulas, a Nashville promoter, proudly announced a Seven Girl Rassle Royal (every girl battling for herself) at the Hippodrome. A widow who described herself as attrac., vivac., affect. & sinc. advertised for a husband in the Los Angeles Mirror. Her reasons: "Wd. enjoy mat. rt. man bec. I did enjoy marriage & comp. Very sinc. Exchange ref. & rec. snap...
Johnny Lee won the New England 128-pound AAU wrestling championship Saturday at the Union YMCA and two former College mat captains, Don Louria '49, and Pete Fuller '46, also triumphed...