Word: runners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Winthrop Hiram Smith, 67, who started in 1916 as a $7-a-week runner for the fledgling brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch & Co., fashioned the company's 1940 merger with E. A. Pierce, its 1941 merger with Fenner & Beane, and in 1958 finally got his own name on the door of the world's largest international investment house as the directing partner, becoming board chairman a year later; of Parkinson's disease; in Litchfield, Conn. Modest but shrewd, Smith brought Main Street to Wall Street by directing a massive advertising drive aimed at turning middle-income...
Filling the 130 lb. slot are Andy McGaughy, runner-up in the New England Inter-Scholastic meet, and Jay Gaffney. At 137 is Brooks Cavin, who was third in high school wrestling in Minnesota last year. He is undefeated in his meets for the Crimson and is an "excellent prospect...
...baseball catcher will keep Bellino out of football. Ranked right alongside Bellino: Tom Mason, 21, Tulane; 6 ft. 1 in., 195 Ibs. Although U.P.I, and A.P. relegated Mason to their third-team All-America, many pros call him the nation's finest back: "He's a slashing runner with great speed, and he hits with abandon." Also high on the pros' lists are Syracuse Junior Ernie Davis ("He's another Jimmy Brown"), Washington State's Keith Lincoln ("One of the real triple threats in the game"), and New Mexico State's Pervis Atkins, drafted...
...country team composed of a 30-year-old Polish refugee, three Australians aged 28, 26, and 25, and a 24-year-old Scot. The magazine thinks it is even better that McNeese State College in Louisiana managed to recruit a 39-year-old English coal miner and cross country runner...
...scant two point margin--falls to erase the impression that the Harriers met a run-of-the-mill team that was inexplicably up for the day. In winning, the Big Red's Frank Brockman bettered his previous best over the course by more than a minute. The top Crimson runner, as usual, Mark Mullin, beat Crimson great Dyke Benjamin's time of two years ago by some ten seconds, but it wasn't enough...