Word: runners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...race, Dyke Benjamin became the first Crimson runner ever to win the Heptagonals, the first to win every contest of the regular cross-country season, and the first harrier captain to lead his team in every regular-season race...
Benjamin is naturally a "front runner," one who sets the pace whenever he can, and is not bothered by the psychological disadvantage of knowing he may be outsprinted at the finish. Whenever Healy tried to ease the strain by running ahead of Benjamin and then slowing up, the Crimson captain would simply move out in front again...
...championship meet is a different proposition from a dual meet," Coach Bill McCurdy said. "We've had some trouble with depth this year and last year too--that hurts when you have 70 people line up for the start. Our fifth runner was twelfth against Yale, but 30 or 40 people might have passed him in a championship meet...
Benjamin has been working hard, according to McCurdy, and should be "tough." Were he to win tomorrow, it would be the first time a Crimson runner has won all his races during the course of a season...
Leonard Warren, 47, baritone. Bronx-born Singer Warren was a runner in the garment district, studied advertising at Columbia, sang in the Radio City Music Hall chorus, won the Metropolitan Auditions of the Air in 1938. A burly man (6 ft., 218 Ibs.), he restricts himself largely to Verdian roles. His big, mahogany-hued voice is unmatched by any other baritone in the world. He virtually owns the role of Rigoletto, both vocally and dramatically...