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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mike Ford is the leading pole vaulter with Chet d'Autremont not quite able to equal Ford's 13 feet as yet. Bill Couch and Steve Brooks are the other vaulters. The hammer throw has Bob Chase and Tom White both guaranteeing performances better than 140 feet with Chases a shade more than that. Harold Smith is the third tosser in that event. At this point the javelin is probably Mikkola's weakest event, with an undeveloped group led by Tem Lacey, John Ordway, and Bob Chase...

Author: By J. ROBERT Moakin, | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 4/16/1941 | See Source »

...April 6, 1199, Richard Coeur de Lion died. On April 6, 1580, an earthquake destroyed part of London. George Washington was elected first President of the U.S. on April 6, 1789, and on April 6, 1909, Admiral Peary reached the North Pole. On April 6, 1917, the U.S. declared war on Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: 39544 | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...Pole vault--Won by Jerry Lenane '44; second, Tom Holyoke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COACH SIZES UP MATERIAL IN HANDICAP | 4/12/1941 | See Source »

Unless something like this is done, most of the Freshman class will be found that night at the Totem Pole Jubilee--out Commonwealth Avenue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ladies in Lionel | 4/11/1941 | See Source »

...missed the school bus ... I saw an opening on my right. Beyond . . . was a fire station, and my first thought was to crash into that and bring her to a stop. But the sidewalk was packed with kids.";) Still praying, Rollerman Solt headed the roller into a steel utility pole. The roller snapped the pole like a toothpick. Solt jerked the steering wheel all the way over and jumped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: I Thought of My Ten | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

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