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...varsity squad will include five veterans from last year's winning varsity; but the absence of Perry Boyden, captain and stroke in previous seasons, will make this spring's match a close contest. Finding an adequate replacement for Boyden has been a season-long problem for coach Harvey Love...
Lions don't take to water, and Columbia usually wages a season-long battle to stay out of last place in the Ivy League. Last year the Light Blues set new Columbia records in seven events without even turning over in their snug beds in the cellar of the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League...
...Toole gave up two home runs as the Yankees won 2-0. And in the second, Cincinnati's Joey Jay pitched a neat four-hitter to square the series. That set the stage for Yankee Outfielder Roger Maris. Emotionally and physically exhausted after his season-long assault on Babe Ruth's home-run record, Slugger Maris was still looking for his first Series hit when he came to bat in the ninth inning of the third game. With the score tied 2-2, Maris finally connected with a hit that took its place in baseball history with Babe...
Nothing in recent baseball history has aroused such sustained excitement-or provoked such profound and varied emotion-as Maris' determined, season-long assault on Ruth's enduring achievement. Most fans cheered him on; ballparks were jammed wherever the Yankees went, and encouraging messages flowed into Yankee Stadium at the rate of 3,000 a week. But a few sentimentalists saw every Maris homer as a personal attack on Ruth. They argued that today's ball is livelier, today's fences shorter, today's pitching easier to hit. Groused Oldtimer Rogers Hornsby: "Maris has no right...
...this season, but Navarrete brought in Topflight Instructor Peter Estin and his ski-school teachers from Vermont's Sugarbush, got Panagra airline (50% Grace-owned) to set a ski-excursion round-trip fare of $420 (regular rate: $678) from Miami, and arranged an inexpensive ($2.50 a day) equipment-rental service in Santiago. Throwing up partitions at Portillo, he figures to expand capacity to 500, with $150,000 worth of ski lifts to haul them all. Even before remodeling and expansion, news of the new Portillo passed around so fast that Navarrete found himself with a season-long full house...