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There has been one bright light for Lee this season -- Jim Abbott. The 189 pound Abbott, who switched from heavy-weights to the 191 class after two matches, has a 7-1 record. His only loss came at M.I.T. against a 250-pounder...
...hoisted him and his three dead mates aboard. In all, a score of bodies were recovered, and it appeared that Hale, who has a wife, two children and two stepchildren in Ashtabula, Ohio, was the sole survivor of the 29-man crew. One factor that prevented the stocky, 220-pounder from succumbing to the cold, said doctors, was his own body fat, which acted as built-in insulation...
After Coburn and Ennis, Brown has a strong secondary -- a bunch that could put away the Crimson much as Providence and Northeastern did. Captain Jim Wich, a slight 115-pounder, and junior George Bowman will give Harvard's middle group a real tussle...
Albert E. Holland and Fe del Mundo first met in the internment camp at Manila's Santo Tomas University in early 1942, just after the city had fallen to the Japanese. Fresh from the well-fed U.S. business colony there, he was still a husky 195-pounder, determined to talk the camp authorities into improving the lot of his fellow internees. She was tiny and frail, only 5 ft. 1 in. and under 90 lbs., a Filipino doctor with a brand-new practice. Dr. del Mundo, who had received much of her medical training in the U.S., was determined...
...charge was Antonio de la Cuesta Valle, 38, the surest and shrewdest of the anti-Castro exiles now actively trying to overthrow Cuba's Maximum Leader. A sturdy 200-pounder, Cuesta had made ten previous trips to Cuba, taking in men and equipment and bringing out agents for debriefing. Last week, on his eleventh trip, Cuesta's luck ran out. No sooner had the raft put ashore than it was spotted by an antiaircraft battery. Two of the men were killed; the other two made it back to the main boat, but were apparently drowned when the boat...