Word: rods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Winthrop Boatings-Cox, Frank Harding, stroke, Bob Terry; Paul Schaikjer, John Nash, Rod Park, Jeremy Paulus, Frank Kennedy, Ned Ames, and bow, Peter Duus...
...standout player on the Williams squad is Rod Starke, a fast, alert goalie who was one of the big factors in the Ephmen's victory last year. Coach Ralph Townsend has 12 returning lettermen from the '52 squad, seven of them starters. Along with Starke, leading attack man Captain Bruce Van Dusen will be another for Bruce Munro's men to reckon with. Though he has been feeding and assisting on most of the scores, he can shoot very well from either side...
...Fisherman Got Away. In Las Vegas, Nev., Colonel Alfred Lambert Jr. cast his fishing line into Lake Mead, pulled in a new, spun-glass fishing rod with a 2-lb. catfish on its hook...
...star of the show was Actor Rod Steiger, who gave a tense and ably controlled performance as the GCA operator nursing the lost plane down its electronic path to safety. Steiger got so much realism into his acting that a viewer in Chicago phoned in to find out if he were actually a Marine radar operator. The answer: no. Steiger is a 27-year-old professional actor. During World War II, he got as far from aircraft as possible: he was torpedoman in a submarine...
Better Answer? The dissatisfaction was mirrored in the postwar hot-rod craze-in which backyard mechanics sought to improve on Detroit's product-and the importation of thousands of foreign cars, such as terrierlike M.G.s, Jaguars, Porsches and Lancias (see color pages). Sports-car clubs sprang up everywhere, and raced their cars at Bridgehampton and Watkins Glen, N.Y., Elkhart Lake, Wis., Pebble Beach, Calif. and Sebring...