Word: nicks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weighs 285 Ibs., and serves his opponents a punch that would scarcely be too stiff for a six-year-old's birthday party. Like Carnera, El Toro (touchingly portrayed by Wrestler Mike Lane) falls among thieves. A well-known gambler and fixologist named Nick Benko (played good and heavy by Rod Steiger) buys up his contract and starts to fatten the Bull for the kill...
Varsity heavies Fritz Schwarz, stroke; Carter Harrison, seven; Jeff Locke, six; Ted McCagg, five; Charlie Atkinson, four; Captain Jack Lapsley, three; Art Hodges, two; Nick Tilney, bow; Peter Milton, coxswain...
Eliot's baseball team lost to Yale champion Calhoun College, 12 to 11, in a seven-inning slugfest, also at New Haven. The Elephants tied the game at 11-all in the top of the seventh, but reliefer Nick Blume was unable to prevent the winning Calhoun run in the bottom of the inning. Left fielder John Bigelow, with three hits, and catcher Bob Radner, with two hits and some fine defensive work, led the Eliot attack...
...last U.S. winner, John A. Kelley of West Acton, Mass., was now called Kelley the Elder, and counted out by all but sentimentalists. But there was another Kelley in contention-Boston University Student John J. Kelley (no kin to John A.)-and also a Natick, Mass, schoolteacher, Nick Costes, to give the U.S. a chance for the Patriots' Day laurel wreath. The younger Kelley, a ten-year veteran at 25, had finished fifth in 1953, seventh in 1954. Costes had placed a strong third last year...
...lessening the likelihood of a second heart attack. According to Dr. Paul Dudley White, the Boston heart specialist, the President takes a pill containing a drug that "thins" the blood. The treatment is tricky because if it goes too far the blood might lose all clotting power, and a nick suffered while shaving could cause dangerous bleeding. The President's doctors make frequent tests, make sure that his blood still has a safe margin of clotting power. He was taking pills daily, now takes them only when tests indicate that it is necessary. The drug is derived from dicoumarin...