Word: poling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smith's new book, a clothesline strung from his best-selling Low Man on a Totem Pole, ought at least keep its author paying stiff-collar taxes. Like Totem Pole it consists of the sort of talk that might be had, by the hour, from any boozy, bawdy, abundant newspaperman. Such talk is dull in spots, complacently boorish in others, childish in some of its conclusions (Westbrook Pegler, though mentally "the human saddle sore" is as a prose stylist "one of the great writers of our day"). At its worst the book has at least the charm...
...Holyoke, 24-foot-six-inch broad jumper, troubled by a leg ailment this winter but now rounding into form; Tim Coggeshall, two-miler and cross-country runner who competed in the IC4A meet this winter; and Ward Slingerland, a 1:58 half-miler who is now working on the pole vault as well...
...Pole Vaulter Cornelius Warmerdam, making his last Eastern appearance of the season (he is too serious about his school-teaching at Piedmont, Calif., to ask for more than two leaves during the school year), left all opponents behind at the 14-ft. level, cleared the bar at 15 ft. 3 ⅞ in. It was his 28th vault above...
...surprise in the meet came when Lex Rogerson and Ward Slingerland respectively beat and tied famed Andover star Beasley in an exciting pole vault event. It was Slingerland's second official trial in vaulting...
...etiquette for the correct placing of the flags is rather simple. When only one flag is flown, it goes on the middle pole. When there are two, the ranking one goes on the right and the other on the left looking west from University Hall. When all three poles are in use, the ranking flag still is placed on the right, while the others are put next to it according to their rank...