Word: runners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week as he studied stacks of memos in his home in Washington's proper Georgetown district. Before him was all available evidence for a cool-headed key decision: whether to enter Wisconsin's Democratic presidential primary, thus risk his front running place by racing Rear-Runner Hubert Humphrey in his own Minnesota backyard. Kennedy decided to take the risk because he felt that a win in this pivotal primary would beat down the resistance of party professionals who control the convention. "If I take Humphrey in Wisconsin," he told a newsman, "they can't take...
...Southwest's second biggest (after Dallas' Republican National). Spectacled, boyish Bob Stewart is a third-generation banker whose grandfather was chairman of the First National, his father a director until last week (his uncle is president of Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co.). He started as a runner for Dallas' Empire State Bank in 1949 after service as a first lieutenant in World War II and graduating from Southern Methodist University, joined the First National in 1951 as an assistant cashier, became a top lending officer in the bank's oil department. Directors picked...
Charley Is My Darling, by Joyce Cary. An early (1940) Cary about an adolescent slum runner evacuated to the English countryside during the blitz, sympathetically written to show that "every ordinary child is by nature a delinquent...
Charley Is My Darling, by Joyce Gary. An early (1940) Gary novel about an adolescent slum runner evacuated to the English countryside during the blitz, wryly and sympathetically written to show that "every ordinary child is by nature a delinquent...
Running against Morgan State's Nick Ellis, Bates' Rudy Smith, and Michigan's Tony Seth, all of whom tower over him, Yale's Jim Stack led from the outset to win in the fine time of 1:10.9. There is no Crimson runner within five seconds of him in this event. Both Stack and Carroll came back after brief rests to pace the number one Eli two-mile squad. Carroll contributed a 1:55 880 as anchor man to fight off challenges by Villanova and Georgetown...