Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...academic pressures, Princeton was not represented, and the championship was confined to competition between Harvard and Yale. In this situation Yale was able to win but one match. At the number one position in team competition, Captain Roger Tuckerman efficiently defeated Yale's Roy Plum 6-2, 6-1. Brothers Dwight and John Davis also won for the Crimson, defeating Eli hopefuls Dinny Phipps and Richard Collier...
...Hungarian-born Joseph Peter Vajk, 16, is news editor of the Princeton (N.J.) high school paper, and has a lead role in a school play. He won $3,000 with a paper theorizing that fallout will speed up human evolution...
...tenth reunion of his college class is where a man discovers with quick amusement that his classmates are married, harried and potty as aldermen. It is also where a man realizes, in dismay, that he is too. Perhaps with the idea of softening the shock, Princeton's class of '49 mailed questionnaires to its 760 members. From 510 anonymous replies, tabulators last week could sketch the sort of old Princetonian who will make the nostalgic trip to Nassau Hall this June: he is plump, prosperous, has most of his hair, is worried about the state of the world...
...Fifty forty-niners felt that Princeton's greatest gifts were social polish, prestige or contacts, but 251 soberly testified that from their college years they got an "education and ability to think." Naturally, education did not solve all problems; 20 believe that World War III is inevitable and 172 think it likely; 374 tax-ridden Princetonians are convinced that the U.S. will become more socialistic. Gloomiest statistics: 80 happy men find living within income "a snap," but 328 say it is a struggle, and for 40 desperate graduates it is "impossible...
Nick Estabrook, at 147, meets a field which includes Lehigh's defending champion, Dick Santoro, while King Holmes, at 157, faces--among other tough men--Bill Macaleer of Princeton, who pinned him in a dual meet. Rick Sullivan, at 167, and heavyweight Ted Robbins or Bob Wynne face similarly tough jobs, although Robbins in particular has been impressive during the season...