Word: pete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yard high hurdles--Wes Flint (2); 220-yard low hurdles--Wes Flint (4); one-mile relay--Dave Hamblett--Al Ruby-Arnie Edelman-Jim Wheeler (3); 16-pound shot put-Bill Jackson (3); 16-pound hammer throw--Jack Fisher (1), Sam Felton (2), John Thorndike (4); pole vault--Pete Harwood (tie for first); Bill Lawrence (3), Owen Torrey (4); javelin throw--Don Trimble (2), Ed Kaelber (5); high jump--Gene Harrington (tie for third); discus throw--Sam Felton (3), Bill Jackson...
...Pete Putnam, who edged out Yale ace Bobby Monetti in the second race of the afternoon, was the star of the contest, placing first for the Crimson in both events of a meet that was hampered because of very light winds...
...once the game has started), Durocher is unsurpassed; as a yearlong strategist, says Rickey, "he ain't." Durocher has an instinct for knowing just what his players can do in any situation. He yanks pitchers quicker than any other manager, and the results usually bear out his judgment. Pete Reiser stole home so often on Durocher's orders (seven times in 1946) that rival pitchers got the jitters every time he reached third base. Brooklyn scored more runs last season on squeeze bunts than any other club. Says Leo: "I play hunches . . . maybe other managers are afraid...
...Harvard-Yale meet, "we had to put boxes under the standards to allow Grant and Gilbert to tie for first place at 11 feet, 6 inches." A keen judge of vaulting ability, who claims that "without good form the pole vaulter can do nothing," Mike expects Pete Harwood to break the current college record of 13 feet, 11 3/4 inches this spring...
...portraying with unique clarity the malignant growth of trends such as the exodus of underpaid teachers from the profession and the slackening of registration in teachers' colleges. President Conant winds up the "March of Time" with a short speech, and is followed by Donald Duck, and Mickey Mouse, and Pete Smith, and at least one other comical feature. This procession of humor is overpowering: all but ardent Pluto fans are advised to synchronize their entrance to the U.T. with the beginning of "The Jolson Story" and their exit with the end of the "March of Time...