Word: rhode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rhode Island's onetime Republican Senator Nelson Aldrich (1841-1915), young Winthrop started out to follow a lawyer's career, graduated tenth in his class at Harvard Law School. After a sister married John D. Rockefeller Jr., he veered off toward banking. In 1922 he became chief counsel to the old Equitable Trust; by 1933 he was running Chase National, the "Rockefeller Bank," with headquarters in downtown Manhattan...
Four Bobs--Twitchell, Rittenburg, Mello, and Curran--combined efforts Saturday afternoon in Briggs Cage to help bring pessimistic Bill McCurday an overwhelming 78 1/3 to 30 2/3 victory over Rhode Island in his debut as Harvard track coach...
...anticipated Rhode Island individual power--hurt by the absence of star high and broad jumper Bob Fererara--never materialized, while the sophomore strength that McCurdy had counted on brought in 27 points...
Mello won the broad jump and soared 12 feet 6 inches in the pole vault for second place behind Rhode Island's Bob Linne. Curran threw the 35 pound weight 52 feet 1 1/4 inches to beat Whitey Black and Dirck Walecka in one of three Crimson sweeps...
...Rhode Island's Bob Ferrara will have the edge in the high jump and broad jump. He has battered 6 feet 4 inches and 23 feet respectively in the two events. In the pole vault, the visitors have two consistent 13 footers in John Goodwin and Paul Linne, whereas the Crimson has only Bob Mello in that range. The Rhodies also have an advantage in the shot put, two mile, and two mile relay...