Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...content to remain a lady's man (despite his baggy-kneed appearance) and to join the boys in downing mountain dew. Finally the spinster head of the art department took alarm, wrote to Ed's brother Hicks, an architect in Boston and 14 years Ed's senior: "This boy has divine talent. If you don't take him away from here and put him in school, it's a crime, and you're a wicked...
...Southern California's Rink Babka, 21, spun out of his crouch and watched his discus sail beyond the marking area and plop into a ditch 201 ft. away. Goggle-eyed officials at the meet in Victorville, Calif, decided to credit the burly (6 ft. 5 in., 245 Ibs.) senior with a toss of only 198 ft. 10 in. But that was still enough to smash the 1953 world record of Minnesota's Fortune Gordien...
What lends the book its interest, despite shortcomings, is a scattering of mixed-blood, split-level aristocrats, culturally nouveau riche but genealogically ancien régime, and some well-described scenes of a dismal garrison town with bored military wives and senior officers well past their World War I prime. Above all, there is the unusual setting. Despite the fact that Novelist Dohrman, 29, has spent only one week in Haiti, he manages to convey that the jungle to him is partly D. H. Lawrence's "blood-consciousness" and partly O'Neill's "dat ole davil...
...some handwrought nails from war-damaged Coventry Cathedral and a stone from the German castle where Martin Luther hid in 1521 while translating and revising the Greek New Testament. But these rank as no more than details blended into the revolutionary design which, says the Rev. Donald Fisher Campbell, senior pastor, "gives a sense of the presence of the Almighty...
...Pacesetter Phil Coleman had finished the first three-quarters of the Bankers' Mile at the Chicago Relays in a fast 3:05. "I was only a stride behind," said Ron, and I could feel the energy flowing. I decided this was it." So the 22-year-old Villanova senior ran all out for the one thing that has been missing from his swift career on the track: a world record. He broke the tape in 4:03.4, two-tenths of a second faster than any man had ever run an indoor mile before. ¶ Overflowing with swimming talent...