Word: racing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much for the career-woman question. But there is another hour to fill-plenty of time to solve the race problem too. So meanwhile, back at the cold-water flat, the Negro maid (Juanita Moore) is having trouble with her light-skinned daughter, who is yearning for the day when she will be old enough to leave home and pass herself off as white. The day comes, the girl goes, and the scriptwriters settle down to the point of the picture: an interminable scene in which the poor old Negro maid dies of a broken heart. Excerpts...
That night the troops assemble on a bluff for a "chickie run." Jim doesn't see the point of the affair, but Buzzy reassures him. ("You gotta' do somethin', don't you?") Jim loses the race, but Buzzy loses a lot more when he can't get the door of his car open before it rolls over the cliff. Except for his loyal followers who decide to wreak revenge upon Jim, not too many are deeply disturbed by Buzzy's demise...
Confidence ran high on both sides before the start of the mile, the day's first race. Jim Doty had come through with a tremendous 178 ft., 7 1/2 in. effort on his last attempt in the hammer throw to snatch first place away from Yale's Dave Cross by three inches. But, on the Yale side, Crimson sophomore Stan Doten's arm injury, which he sustained in getting off the bus the night before, had kept him from taking an important second or third...
...This one race changed the complexion of the meet, and the Crimson never seriously threatened, although it performed brilliantly. Captain Albie Gordon ran one of the best races of his career, a 48.1 440, but he lost by a step to Yale's Jim Stack, who set a meet mark with his 48.0 clocking. Crimson sophomore Frank Yeomans' 9.8 performance in the 100 was good only for a second to Bulldog Steve Snyder...
Varsity ace Joel Landau had one of the unhappiest days of his brilliant career, winning only one race, the high hurdles, in 14.9. Troubled by foot ailments, he was shut out in the 220 behind a Yale sweep led by Dave Bain with a meet mark...