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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Captain Johnny Lee, undefeated lightweight last year, will not see action for the first few meets because of a knee operation that he underwent last September. Pickett hopes to have the National A.A.U. 123-pound winner ready for the first meet in January...
...pound weight event is weak. The track team has been stripped by graduation of almost all its experienced weightmen. Pete Curran and Dwight Black are the men Mikkola will have to depend on to come along. Curran has shown he can throw in the high forties, while Black showed great promise before becoming ineligible after his freshman year. Other possibilities in this event are Dirk Walecka and George Osgoodby...
...Lord Beaverbrook, 72, gave some depressing figures on the present-day economics of publishing in Britain. Of some $2,200,000 which his Daily Express (circ. 4,200,000) earned last year, the government took $1,400,000 in taxes before dividends, then collected all but sixpence on every pound paid to stockholders. Beaverbrook, who owns nearly three-fourths of the stock, ended up with $16,800 for his pains...
Nichols, the 220-pound wearer of number 77, was the Crimson's top offensive and defensive lineman throughout the 1951 season. Possessing the build and speed of a good a tackle, Nichols has always played at that position at Montelair, New Jersey, High School, on the 1947 New England Championship football team at Loomis School, and at Harvard...
Nichols, a 220-pound junior from Westport, Connecticut, was first string tackle for the '53 freshman team and has played at that position with the varsity for the past two years. His offensive aggressiveness and defensive immovability has made him the Crimson's most valuable lineman...