Word: racing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson cindermen combined five individual victories and several gritty backup performances to set up a showdown race in the meet's final event, the two-mile relay. Army sought to duplicate the result of December's dual meet, when a narrow win in the same relay climaxed a 57-51 Cadet victory...
...anticipated rematch never occurred. Army's leadoff runner dropped the baton on the first lap, and the Harvard foursome of Tom Spengler, John Gillis, Jon Enscoe, and Keith Colburn never let them back into the race. Enscoe and Colburn each clocked 1:54 half-mile legs to outdistance second-place Cornell...
...four relay runners had performed well in earlier events. Colburn eased through his afternoon trial in the 1000, then ran a superb tactical race to nip Yale's Steve Bittner in the finals. Starting last, the redheaded junior gradually worked his way up to second place. With 200 yards to go, he burst past Bittner un-expectedly and held off a last-ditch challenge to snap the wire...
...which showed three women standing together-one in black, one in white, one nude. He used this trio in several different canvases, known collectively as "the Sphinx" cycle. They epitomized, as no other subject could, the shy, alcoholic bachelor's agonized obsession with that half of the human race which he never was able to understand...
...campaign coordinator for the school race is Humphrey Doermann '52 Assistant to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for Financial Affairs...