Word: pitt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time Robert was a bachelor approaching 50. But in recent weeks Gardiner had been seen with Eunice Oakes, the striking, thirtyish widow of William Pitt Oakes (who died in 1958, 15 years after the still unsolved murder in Nassau of his father, Multimillionaire Miner Sir Harry Oakes). One columnist even overheard Bobbie gush: "She sends me." Last week the Long Island lord ended the society-page speculation, gave Eunice an olive-sized diamond (plucked from a grandmother's earring), announced that on March 21 she would be to the manor borne. Why the rush? Replied Gardiner...
...mile relay, after a 2:01.7 leg by Harry Rich and a 2:00.7 by Gus Schumacher had given him a three-yard margin. Mullin looked exhausted on his turn, and was passed by Pitt's Don Adams with a lap and a half to go. But he responded to the challenge with a burst that carried him past Adams to a 15-yard margin. Mullin's split was 2:00.5; Howard covered the final 880 in 1:56.9 for a 7:59.8 triumph...
...Weiers of Pitt tied the Cage pole vault mark with a leap of 13 ft., 6 in., and Panther Dan Kanell tossed the shot 54 ft., 1/2 in. for a school record...
...Crimson's Harry Rich, competing in the second heat, took the 600 in 1:16.4, after Don Kirkland and Pitt's Vance Carter, the favorites, dawdled in the first heat. Harvey Brickman, a senior who came out last Wednesday, tied Panther Ed Sherlock for first in the high jump...
Carter and Stokes are interchangeable. Pitt coach Carl Rees may bomb one event with both of them, spread them out, or save one or both of them for the relays. At Army, the Panthers took the mile relay in 3:21.0, and then ran 7:52.0 to win the two-mile relay. Carter, in his only race of the day, covered a leg of the longer race...