Word: penns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acre Whitney estate in Manhasset, Long Island: "We just had a good time talking and looking around. All very nice people." Mamie Eisenhower, during Spring Week festivities at Brother-in-Law Milton Eisenhower's Pennsylvania State College, obligingly crowned Madeline Sharp of Herndon, Va. "Miss Penn State" then added a fillip by giving the winner a vigorous bear...
...Washington, in the first major crew race held on the Potomac-and the first ever televised-Navy's Olympic champions won their igth straight and the Eastern Sprint championship, beating Harvard by a third of a length. Other finishers, in order: Wisconsin, Cornell, Columbia, Penn...
...smooth water and hot windless conditions, the Crimson got off to a poor start, and was fifth when the stroke settled. Navy stroked at a 48 (compared to Harvard's 42) at the start, but was only in third position, behind Penn and Cornell...
Wisconsin and Cornell were neck and neck in the sprint, but the Badgers just overtook the Big Red to finish third. Columbia and Penn were fifth and sixth...
...they represent a little light in a very gloomy picture. Both men were out-spoken in favor of big-time athletics, nourished by a sports-oriented admissions machine, and both scheduled a heavy press of professionalized opponents. Their departures seem to indicate a shift to Harvard's policy by Penn and Yale, and if those two can do it, presumably other Ivy League colleges...