Word: runners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Read figure strongly in the Crimson's hopes to take the 50-yard hurdles, while MacKinnon and Fred Carr show promise in the 50-yard dash. Ted Withington will anchor the relay team against Rhode Island State, with Jim Wheeler, Wes Flint, and Dave Read running with him. Distance runner Bob Carroll, leads Northeastern's fine aggregation this year, and Rhode Island State, although hit hard by the draft, has shown consistently good performance...
...when all the doings were over on December 23, Barnaby looked around and found himself the proud possessor of Decker Orr, who won the tournament, and Tom Sears, who was the runner-up. Thinking back over past seasons the mentor said he could not recall such a thing ever happening. Nor had there been a Crimson winner since the days of Germaine G. Glidden '36 who was national champion from...
...Year idea caught on with a bang and, somewhat surprised, we decided to make it an annual event. The choice is in no way an accolade or a Nobel Prize for doing good. Nor is it a moral judgment. (Al Capone came close to being runner-up in riotous, bootleg 1928). The two criteria for the choice are always these: Who had the biggest rise in fame; and who did most to change the news for better (like Stalin this year) or for worse (like Stalin in 1939, when his flop to Hitler's side unleashed this worldwide...
Ohio (52 delegates): "With Republican laymen, Willkie is the only party leader who arouses any enthusiasm. In prestige and personal appeal, he has no runner-up. But to the Republican machine, Willkie simply does not exist. In 1940, Ohio's professional Republicans had their own man in Senator Taft. Now they have Governor Bricker. And this time they think they have a winner. Ohio is sewed up tight for Bricker; right now Willkie couldn't swing a precinct committeeman. . . . The independent organization that fought for Willkie in 1940 is dead...
Died. John Borican, 29, Negro middle-distance runner, record-breaking all-round athlete, only man ever to hold the national decathlon and pentathlon championships at the same time; after wasting away from 170 lb. to 110 in three months; in Bridgeton...