Word: poling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...means twenty-five cents for George Frazier. Basie's publicity department ran an ad in Variety calling it "the year's most publicized record"; I imagine they must read this column. . . . The explosive trumpet of Bunny Berigan was to be heard last night over the air from the Totem Pole, and it was the Bunny of five years ago at that. When sober, Berigan can apparently still play the most exciting improvisations, from the standpoint of tone, melodic ideas, or what you will, of any white man, and last night, on numbers like "Lover Come Back to Be" and "Night...
...Pole vault-R. Sheridan, Andover, 12 feet; second, L. Wright, Harvard, and Peacock, Dartmouth; fourth, Rogerson, Harvard...
Star performer of the meet, which took place at New Haven, was Mike Ford, who broke the Eli cage record, the meet record, and the all-time Harvard record in the pole vault with a leap of 13 feet, 11 1/4 inches...
Yale's Charlie Frankenhoff and Bob Boles worked together to push Johnny Bunker down into third place. The two Elis tied for first at 6 ft., 3/8 in. Next events was the pole vault, which was won by Ford, with Steve Brooks second, and Ned Greene of Yale third...
Almost every time he tries, Pole Vaulter Cornelius ("Dutch") Warmerdam of San Francisco, Calif, vaults a little higher. Two years ago he was the first man to top 15 feet, once considered physically impossible. Last year he set a new outdoor mark of 15 ft. 5¾ in. (TIME, June 16). Fortnight ago, at the Millrose Games in Madison Square Garden, he set a new indoor mark of 15 ft. ⅜ in. But pole vaulting indoors bothers Dutch. "Here in the Garden," he said, "the ceiling seemed to press down on me." But last week in Boston's Garden...