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...other Harvard pins were registered by Pete Stanley and Ted Robbins. Stanley, a sophomore scoring his first varsity win, racked up five points in the first period against John Overdeck on a takedown and a near-fall, and went on to pin the Tech 167-pounder at 4:28. Robbins, beaten in his first two starts by highly-rated Cornell and Franklin and Marshall heavyweights, came up with an easy victory, pinning Jack Smith...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Wrestlers Romp Over M.I.T., 34-0; Four Gain Pins | 1/15/1959 | See Source »

...Pouser, at 123, will wrestle Stan Park, a junior transfer student from Bowdoin who pinned a 137-pounder against UMass. At 137, John Watkins, a Crimson victor against Cornell, faces Dave Lathan, another of the six sophs on the Tech squad...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Wrestling Squad To Meet M.I.T. | 1/14/1959 | See Source »

...renowned wrestling school, is a "test" for them. The Crimson did not face Franklin and Marshall last year. Former captain Bob Foster in the 177-lb. class pulled an upset in the Cornell match, and will be a Harvard standout this season. Captain John Noble at 157, and 137-pounder John Watkins were the other winners in the last contest, and should be favorites tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fencing Team Opens At Home; Wrestlers, Squash Team Travel | 1/9/1959 | See Source »

Personality & Family Life. A muscular, deep-voiced 185-pounder Brandt hates to get up in the morning, must be handled with care before breakfast, but then throws himself into his job until he switches out the lights in his modest two-family house at 3 a.m. (after an interlude of "reading and thinking alone"). Collects coins as a hobby, but now has little time for that or for his family-his glamorous Norwegian wife Rut and their two sons, Peter, 11, and Lars, 7. Brandt speaks Norwegian at home, is also fluent in English, made an excellent impression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: MAYOR OF FREE BERLIN | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...British Columbians managed to plow only about 33% of the available farmland, utilize barely a fraction of their other known natural resources. Yet prosperity is a condition of life, to be greeted with the same calm pleasure as the monster 25-lb. brook trout (in the East a five-pounder is trophy size) hauled from the rivers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: CANADA: British Columbia at 100 | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

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