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Yardlings Art Wills, Don French, and Jim Whatmough captured the first three places respectively in their meet, after Dartmouth's front-running Ron Marshall collapsed 50 yards from the finish line. Marshall got up and came in sixth, behind his teammates Bill Hull and John Riker. Ken Wilson, eighth, and Jim Gregg, ninth, clinched the meet for the Yardlings...
...Jazz Clarinetist Milton ("Mezz") Mezzrovv also crossed the line from white to black. Arrested by New York police for marijuana peddling, Mezzrow, whose parents were Russian Jews, asked to be confined with Negro inmates on Riker's Island. Later he wrote: "Some of the finest, most high-spirited guys of the [Negro] race landed in jail because of their conditions of life . . . I made up my mind to do something drastic. Just as we were having our pictures took for the rogues' gallery, along came Mr. Slattery, the deputy . . . 'Mr. Slattery,' I said...
This lecture, to which all students of both colleges are invited, is the fourth in a series of weekly lectures on the news, inaugurated this fall by the League. Previous meetings have heard Michael Karpovitch, associate professor of History, William H. Riker, teaching fellow in Government, and Romylos C. Macridis, teaching fellow in Government...
...DORIS RIKER...
...since he was a stripling of 16, studied art at the Rhode Island School of Design, once did scenic designs for Max Reinhardt. His first big mural jobs, done on WPA for a Greenpoint, L.I. hospital and New York's World's Fair and Riker's Island Penitentiary, got him so talked about that Manhattan's Museum of Mod ern Art decided to buy a sample of his work. A hard worker, he took time off from his WPA job to do a series of murals for Manhattan's Hotel Lexington, where he brought guffaws...