Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the Big Red does not have the varsity's depth, it has the brilliant performers necessary to pick up the big first place points. Cornell is especially strong in the field events, where Dick Allman is favored to take the shot, and John King appears the best in both the high jump and the broad jump...
...Pete Harpel can get off a good throw (he has fouled some 60-foot throws in practice) he could win. Or he could place no higher than fourth. If shotputter Jim Doty can get off a toss similar to his winning throw in the Army meet, he, too, could pick up valuable points...
...love or a piece of change among the ruins. In the wake of World War II armies, he had moved unerringly into the black market up the Italian peninsula into Vienna, but eventually he seemed condemned to living off his wife in London. The need for propaganda ("You just pick it up as you go along, boy") takes him to a last chance in Malaya, where he is supposed to dress up the unprecedented local elections...
There was never any doubt about the varsity match. At the end of the first round, the Crimson led 8 to 1--the only loss being in foil. In the second round, the varsity dropped another foil bout, but went on to pick up six more wins and the match, as the score went to 14 to 4. A win in foil, three in sabre, and two in epee brought the Crimson total to 20 in the final round...
After a while the show gets back to Clara Mae (Betsy Nelson) as she wonders how to win the Miss Informed intellectual beauty contest, and how to pick a beau from her two suitors, Dick and Derek, played by Richard Hines and Theodore Lappas. The young swains provided one of the more musically delightful duets of the evening as they pranced through "Why Do You Keep Us On a String...