Word: runners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quarter-finals, Niederhoffer defeated Dave O'Laughlin of Pittsburgh 3-1 (13-15, 15-13, 17-14, 15-11); he shut out last year's runner-up, Bob Hetherington of Yale, in the semi-finals (18-16, 15-12, 15-12). Hetherington had beaten Penn's Maurice Heckscher 3-2 in the quarters...
While Harvard's varsity ranks number one nationally. Yale has the best top four players. The Elis will send defending champion Ralph Howe, defending runner-up Bob Hetherington, George West, and Charlie Frank against Vic Niederhoffer, Lou Williams, Terry Robinson, and Allen Terrell...
...hillside village overlooking the factory smoke of the Colne Valley. At the local council school, he won the first of a series of scholarships that eventually carried him to Oxford's Jesus College, where he was a leading member of the debating society and a cross-country runner. Graduating with first class honors, Wilson remained at Oxford as an economics don until the war, ending up in the Ministry of Fuel and Power. Sir William Beveridge employed him as a researcher for his famed Social Insurance report, and called Wilson a "brilliant young man" and "the best economist...
...confronted with himself at 60, 40, 20, and even as a baby. The four grown Sams share the stage together, and with all the amusing ironies of hindsight and foreknowledge relive key episodes in their communal life. Sam at 20 (John Horton) is an ardent lyric poet and marathon runner, at 40 (Donald Davis) a disgruntled fictional crafts man of obscure worst-sellers, at 60 (Dennis King) a rich, popular hack novelist and flagging voluptuary. Old Sam is still trying to learn the lesson of his life as the four Sams discuss marriage, mistresses, goals and the gulf between father...
...phenomenal Vic Niederhoffer, however, has a better chance to snatch the singles title away from a host of former champions and challengers. Niederhoffer has a bye in the first round, and will meet Bob Hetherington, Yale's number two player, Friday afternoon. Hetherington was runner-up behind teammate Ralph Howe in the intercollegiates last year, while Niederhoffer ranked only fifth; but the Harvard junior should have no trouble winning this time...