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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Determined to avoid a similar tragedy in the E.C.A.C. tournament, Kelley refused to allow his first unit of Jack Leetch, Billy Hogan, and Paul Aiken to skate against the Kinasewich line. Play was interrupted for five minutes while the two coachs trotted lines on and off the ice and argued with referees--rule books in hand...

Author: By Robert A. Ferguson, | Title: Harvard Beats B.C. in Overtime to Win Hockey Crown | 3/11/1963 | See Source »

Dartmouth is 0-4 in League competition and lacks the depth to skate with Harvard's three lines. In addition, the Indians have been plagued with defensive lapses all season and coach Eddie Jeremiah's moving of forward Chuck Zen to defense has not completely solved the problem...

Author: By Robert A. Ferguson, | Title: Injuries Slow Six Tonight In Game With Dartmouth | 2/6/1963 | See Source »

What does the well-dressed skater wear over her leotard this year? Leopard, of course, but not any old spotted cat. On the outdoor skating rink of Manhattan's Rockefeller Plaza, raven-haired Model Diane Conlon, 17, fetchingly demonstrated a pale, shaggy snow leopard from the icy reaches of Nepal. And for almost any girl, whether she can skate or not, Diane's pretty partners, modeling for the kick-off campaign of New York's United Hospital Fund, showed that Cambodian tiger, white mink and red nutria also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 2, 1962 | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

...Skate?" Small-town living is one of the traditions inherited from Founder Mecherle, who until his death in 1951 was known in Bloomington as "The Chief." A farmer whose family settled in McLean County in 1857, Mecherle started selling auto insurance to neighbors shortly after World War I, soon discovered that the companies whose policies he peddled either ignored farmers or charged them the same rates as city drivers, whose accident rate is higher. When Mecherle suggested changes, he was told: "If you don't like the way we do things, go start your own company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Insurance: Boom in Bloomington | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

...office building, but soon overflowed that into a funeral parlor, a ballroom and a warehouse. At one point, operations were so scattered that Mecherle hired the members of a roller derby that had gone broke in Bloomington and set them to delivering interoffice mail on roller skates. For years afterward, State Farm personnel applications included the question: "Do you roller-skate, and how well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Insurance: Boom in Bloomington | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

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