Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defeat by Columbia brings the Crimson record to two losses, no wins in Ivy League competition. The fencing team lost to Cornell 16-11, three weeks ago. In this meet, Don Tingle and Mike Woolf each won two of three matches to aid Cabral in giving the Crimson a victory, 6-3 in the sabre division...
...pound sophomore, Ron Heinmann, scored the Big Green's only victory. He beat the varsity's John Watkins on a 10-6 decision. Elsewhere, the Crimson's superiority was clearly marked. Dick Steinzig, wrestling for the first time this season at 123, edged Mike Duffy, 8-7. Sophomore Nick Estabrook rounded out the varsity scoring with a 9-7 decision over Hop Holmberg...
...rains (5 in. in 24 hours in Columbus) swished over frozen ground, ran off into rivers like the Olentangy, the Kokosing, the Chagrin and Racoon Creek, swelled them until they overflowed to flood scores of cities and towns, batter buildings with massive hunks of ice. Ohio's Governor Mike Di Salle and Pennsylvania's David Lawrence declared emergencies. In Columbus Mrs. Betty Montgomery, 59, a wheelchair-bound invalid, sat stolidly at her window, watched the Scioto River rising up her wall. When flood water reached the first floor, she tied a string to the trigger...
Roaring around the tracks of the world in his flame red Ferrari, Racing Driver Mike Hawthorn, 29, was all that hero-hungry Britons could ask for. His big body hunched in cramped cockpits, his face set in a ferocious scowl, their Mike was a throwback to Battle of Britain fighter pilots -a carefree daredevil with unruly flaxen hair and polka-dot bowtie. In eight lusty years, lead-footed Mike punished cars, survived six serious accidents -and last October became the first world champion in British racing history. Two months later moody Mike abruptly retired from racing, said...
Some of the reasons were plain. Ever since Mike drove in the 1955 Le Mans, where 83 were killed when a track mixup sent Pierre Levegh's Mercedes into the crowd, Grand Prix racing had not seemed quite the same. Last year came the fiery deaths of his Ferrari teammates, Italy's Luigi Musso and Britain's Peter Collins. At Musso's funeral, Mike grabbed Juan Fangio's hand and muttered: "We have to quit this." (Said Fangio: "That conversation finally decided me to retire...