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Wonderful Hour. Savage reprisals did not outlast the first tense hours of freedom. More typical of anti-AVH demonstrations was the ancient lady dressed in mourning, carrying in one hand a huge black flag the size of a bed sheet and in the other a little bunch of white asters, who marched at a funeral pace three miles to the AVH School for Communism. Naturally the AVH had long since departed, but the old lady had a wonderful hour tossing framed portraits of Lenin and Stalin and clouds of Communist propaganda out of the windows...
...Nashua, seemed determined to let nothing stop him from winning the $55,200 Grey Lag Handicap at Jamaica. He stumbled coming out of the starting gate and fell to his knees. Another horse might have quit. Not Nashua. Under Jockey Ted Atkinson's urging, he came on to outlast a fast field and finished a head in front of Alfred...
Harvard's next three men, however, could not outlast their well conditioned Navy opponents. Tied at 14 all in the fourth game, Lee Folger faltered and lost to John Griffiths, 12-15, 15-13, 15-9, and 17-15. Both Marty Heckscher and Charlie MacVeagh extended the Middies' Jim Hogg and Mike Gluse, ranked five and six respectively, to five games. MacVeagh lost by one point, 9-15, 17-16, 15-12, 17-16, and 17-16, while Heckscher, soundly beaten in the last two games, bowed...
Saving himself for the decisive struggle, Brew relied on his strong finishing kick. Although Reider fought him all the way, he did not quite have the power to outlast the Dartmouth captain...
...complete an American sweep of the Wimbledon Singles titles, California's Louise Brough needed every trick in the book to outlast California's Beverly Baker Fleitz 7-5, 8-6. A Wimbledon winner in 1948, '49, and '50, Tennis Stylist Brough is now halfway to Helen Wills Moody Roark's Wimbledon record of eight championships...