Word: runners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Natural-born Runner...
Gurley, a natural born runner, is a tall husky redhead from Newton who has no high school experience in either track or cross country and who ran for only a few brief weeks in the fall of 1943 before he went into the army. As far as could be determined, his election sets some sort of a record in Varsity sports--although he is in the class of '47, he is only a second term Freshman, a fact which augurs well for future of cross country...
...Tufts won top honors for the afternoon as the finished 150 yards ahead of the field in 21:56.2. Jim O'Leary of Holy Cross, who finished second in the half mile in a meet here last spring, took the place sport, and Duncan Blanchard of Tufts, a runner discovered by Jaakko Mikkola here before he was transferred by the Navy to Tufts, followed the fleet heels of O'Leary by about a minute...
Amassing 104 points to the Crimson's runner-up total of 91, the M.I.T. boats led in both the 12 and 14 foot dinghy classes, while Owen Torrey, commodore of the Harvard Yacht Club, led the star class craft...
...smart errand boy hears a lot, especially if he happens to be the son of a President. F.D.R.'s second son and self-styled errand runner ("I'm the Roosevelt who didn't go to Harvard") undoubtedly heard plenty: at the Atlantic Charter conference, at Casablanca, Cairo and Teheran. How well he remembers what he heard may be something else, as his mother tactfully suggests in her foreword to this book: "I am quite sure that many of the people who heard many of the conversations recorded herein, interpreted them differently, according to their own thoughts...