Word: races
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frank Effinger, Yale's top-rate miler, failed in yesterday's race, placing 11th in order of finish. Dave Gregory, running eighth, was first in the Harvard entry. Captain Joe Leeming, running only his third race of the season, followed Gregory at ninth place...
...November 8, the people will choose a mayor, a city council, and a school committee. Five candidates are in the race for mayor, only three of which are serious contenders. For the School Committee, nine persons are seeking two positions, while the grand total of 87 contenders are fighting to represent the 22 wards in the city council...
...speed and safety and have been given a thorough engine job. Both front and rear fenders are pared off. Outsize tires on the right side are allowed to help the driver negotiate turns. The cars take a terrific beating but the fact that they seldom have to quit a race seems to indicate how substantially they were built originally and how well they are taken care...
...race for president of the Class of 1953 are Joyce Bisbee, Isabel Fulton, Eleanor Levine, Elinor Meiss, Martha McCabe, and Dee Waelder. Vice-presidential candidates are Nancy Barrow, Kitty Barbehenn, Wendy Cowie, Diana Crane, Sally Lord, and Holly Walker...
During the current race some independents have accused the CCA of levelling blanket attacks at all unendorsed candidates. It would be hard to deny this. The Association has too often tended to lump all independents into one group in campaign literature--the opposition, "politicians," "grafters," or just poor choices. The CCA does have a case, however, in that many of the strongest independents are opposed to Plan E government, and sworn to remove at least the PR section of the city Charter. With the system working well now, and expected to do better, there is little reason to elect...