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Junta is undefeated in his matches this season and was captain of his squad at Mercersburg Academy. He was 1954 Junior Hardcourts Champion, 1952 Junior Hardcourts Doubles Champion, and California Boys State Champion in 1949, 1950, and 1951. In 1953, he reached the finals of the Junior National Doubles Championships and in 1952 Junta was runner-up in the National Boys Singles...
After graduating from Mercersburg Academy, Stockly entered Princeton where he majored in French. "At that time." he says, "there were three things I wanted to do: drive a taxi, fly a plane and work on a newspaper." In due course he accomplished all three. Between his junior and senior years at Princeton, he drove a cab around Pittsburgh for six months. "The third day I had the cab job, a man asked me to drive him and his son (the patient) to an insane asylum about 15 miles away. I was so new I didn't know...
...overall grade of 99 plus was the best ever made at Mercersburg Academy. In spite of some undetermined ailment that kept him in & out of the infirmary, he got through Williams College with a record that led Columbia University's famed Philosopher John Dewey to take him on as a teaching assistant. He took a walk with Psychologist William James, remembers just one comment: "I have a brother [Henry] who writes novels, and he used to be a very good writer, too, but since he got lazy and began dictating, his style has become groping and repetitious...
Ford laid the foundation for his record-snapping stroke in Balboa, Canal Zone, improved it at Mercersburg Academy. When he entered Yale three years ago, he was ready for squatty Bob Kiphuth's swimming course for advanced students. A fanatic on physical condition, Coach Kiphuth put Ford through the usual ten weeks of exercises to build belly, back and chest muscles, other exercises to strengthen arm depressors, hip-joint flexors and extensors. Then Kiphuth got to work on Ford's form. After three years of bringing his stroke close to perfection, Ford has one final problem : the necessity...
...Freshman class. Among those slated for possible action this term are Walter Coulson, a promising first baseman from Lawrence Academy, who is expected to start in Saturday's game, J. M. Dunn, a third baseman from Andover, Weston Durant, a catcher from Thayer Academy, Shaw Livermore, a pitcher, from Mercersburg Academy, and Bob Goodale, an outfielder...