Word: phils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Irish Ron Delany was jogging along in fine style when he heard the announcer report that Pacesetter Phil Coleman had finished the first three-quarters of the Bankers' Mile at the Chicago Relays in a fast 3:05. "I was only a stride behind," said Ron, and I could feel the energy flowing. I decided this was it." So the 22-year-old Villanova senior ran all out for the one thing that has been missing from his swift career on the track: a world record. He broke the tape in 4:03.4, two-tenths of a second faster...
...toward correcting the scandal (e.g., lowering minimum price supports from 75% of parity to 60%), has become such a convenient political target that Midwestern Republicans would like to dump him before election time. Two of the dump-Benson Congressmen, Nebraska's A. L. (for Arthur Lewis) Miller and Phil Weaver, had the gall to go to the President last week to attack a member of his Cabinet. They argued that Benson will lose the Republicans 20 to 25 House seats and five Midwestern governors. Face to face with the President, they did not quite have the nerve to demand...
...grading (the clod-coddling marking system that is based on the class average), insisted that his boys measure up to definite levels. One bright boy who measured up: Composer Leonard Bernstein, who still talks of Marson's lectures on English poetry. Says a Boston Latin colleague of Marson: "Phil never pretended education was fun or that there was any substitute for hard work. He was the ideal secondary-school teacher...
With the Yale game four days away, Coach Edo Marion is starting the "B" foil and sabre squads. Eliot Morrison will lead off in foil, with Bill Bassetti and sophomore Phil Charat filling the second and third slots...
...Rozsy worried Ron, the pale, frail-looking Irishman in Villanova's colors gave no sign last week when he glided easily into the early laps of the National Amateur Athletic Union mile. He picked a place in the clear, just off the pace, and let Chicago's Phil Coleman tow the field along. His slow (2:05.2) half bothered him not a bit. Farther back, Rozsy began to show concern. He wasted energy jockeying for the lead...