Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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B.A.A. officials are currently dickering to add an extra four odd minutes--the shorter the better--to Heptagonal championships, which will be held at the Stadium this spring; the added event would be an invitational mile. Graduate student Josy Barthel, the Luxemburg Olympic champ and winner in the recent K. of C. and B.A.A. meets, would be a certain entrant, and invitations would also go out to milers like Wes Santoo of the University of Kansas, Fred Wilt, and Lon Truex...
...common opponent is forthcoming, and it will then be obvious what the varsity must do. Yale had its fist eastern Intercollegiate meet last Saturday and swamped Army, 67 to 13. The Crimson faces Army this weekend. And it hopes to end Yale's unbeaten string of 100-odd meets at the end of the season...
...first year, with his usual energy, Grant took seven courses (four was standard), lived in an attic, wore secondhand clothes and did odd jobs to add to his savings. By the end of the year, his money ran out, so Grant took a job selling roofing in the Southwest until he saved enough for a second try at Harvard. After struggling through the second year, he gave up and moved to a cheap room in Hoboken, having lost his "illusions about what an education could do for me." By limiting himself to 11? a day for lunch and not much...
...When the two young artists were about to be married in 1951, their friend and neighbor Pablo Picasso slipped into their modest apartment in Vallauris, north of Cannes, and by way of a wedding present proceeded to decorate the drab walls. His sketches were charming and nonabstract. In an odd corner he painted a thoroughly representational bloomer girl, to remind Jean of his bachelor days. In the bedroom he put a nude, and in the kitchen, still lifes of fish and fowl. In the living room the master did a ten-ft. allegorical mural in which Huguette Ramie...
...short weeks in the spring of 1943, he was the key figure in a scheme which convinced the Germans that the attack on Sicily was to be only a feint, led them to weaken Sicily's defenses and so save any number of Allied lives. The odd part of it was that William Martin accomplished all this without lifting a finger. Major Martin, in fact, was dead when he was commissioned...