Word: mins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Captain Dyke Benjamin, undefeated for the year, led the field with a time of 25 min., 51 sec. Coach Bill McCurdy called his performance "one of the best races he has ever...
Varsity captain Dyke Benjamin led a winning Crimson triumvirate that included sophomore Jed Fitzgerald and senior Jim Schlaeppi. He covered the five mile course in 25 min. 47 sec. Fitzgerald finished a close second in 25 min. 55 sec., while Schlaeppi's third place time was 26 min...
...They ought to haul Sceptre up for good," said a top U.S. yachtsman, "and plant geraniums in her cockpit." In the wake of Columbia's embarrassingly thorough, four-straight conquest of Britain's Sceptre by an average margin of 8 min. 43 sec.† off Newport, R.I. last week, sailing buffs asked: Why had the America's Cup races produced such an astounding mismatch...
From there on, the two were never again pressed and finished close together not far off the course record. Benjamin covered the five and 1/16 mile distance in 27 min. 54 sec.; Fitzgerald finished in 28 min. 6 sec. Will Thompson stayed within striking distance during the whole race and finished a strong fourth for the Crimson about a minute behind the leaders...
...rare moment of relaxing, the Air Force's Vice Chief of Staff, bluff, gruff General Curtis E. LeMay, who two weeks ago set a world record for a nonstop 7,100-mile flight from Japan to Washington (time: 12 hr. 28 min.) in a KC-135 jet tanker, critically checked out the stogie-lighting skill of daughter Patricia Jane, 19. The occasion: a father-daughter dinner at the capital's National Press Club, where pretty Pat won a door prize, but failed to coax her high-flying papa from his chair for even one dance...