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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hair, Alec inevitably got the nickname "Pin," learned to play tennis well enough to reach the quarterfinals of the Newport Invitational when he was 16. He prepared for the match (against Wilmer Allison) by drinking till dawn, then amazed himself by taking a 4-1 lead in the second set. At this point his hangover caught up with him. Says Cushing: "I had a total blackout. When I tried to throw the ball up for service, I almost went flat on my face. At least that's my story. My friends say Allison looked at his watch, noticed that...
...voyage, he ingratiated himself with Boxing Manager Joe ("I should have stood in bed") Jacobs before the ship left the dock, spent most of the trip playing poker on A-deck with Jacobs, Max Schmeling and Morton Downey. In his sophomore year Alec decided summer trips were too short, set out to get his degree in three years, didn't quite make it (he lacked one-half unit), but managed a nine-month tour of the Far East (on which he visited with Fred Astaire) while his classmates labored back in Cambridge...
...allowed Poulsen to reserve 42 acres of land for homesites, found belatedly that Squaw Valley Development Corp. was left with only six acres of level ground. Cushing wanted to operate restaurant, bar and lodging facilities at Squaw. Poulsen wanted to lease them out. Cushing went ahead anyway, bought a set of old Air Force barracks, had them trucked into the valley, put the corporation in the hotel business...
Conflict of Interests. Triumphantly Cushing returned to the U.S., ran headlong into a stern warning from the I.O.C.'s crusty chairman, Avery Brundage: "Cushing, you're going to set back the Olympic movement 25 years." For a time, it appeared that Brundage had something. Cushing could count on the piddling $1,000,000 voted by the state, but even in his most poor-mouth moment, he never envisioned that the games could be staged for less than...
...With the high jump bar set at 7 ft., Boston University Freshman John Thomas (TIME, Feb. 2) missed his first attempt but sailed cleanly across on the second try. beating U.S. Outdoor Champion Charlie Dumas (first man ever to jump 7 ft.) and smashing his own world's indoor record for the second time in three weeks, at New York's 52nd annual Millrose Games...