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...suit and porkpie hat) and for McGough (who suffers the crippling handicap of being the headmaster's son), there is only one thing to do at Hawley-defeat Hawley. They nearly succeed. A pipe is shot from the mouth of a bird-watching master, the dorm-to-chapel sprint record is broken, and the "discriminatory practices" of the old against the young in the matters of sex and summer are defeated. As the two cronies weasel their way to Yale and through the R.C.A.F., there emerges a portrait of that very special generation, not lost but somehow mislaid between...
Twice Zwirner came from behind to defeat Pete Reider by comparatively large margins on his tremendous finishing sprint...
...mile, Reider passed pace-setter Phil Williams at the 660 mark, with Zwirner nearly ten yards behind in third place. The three entered the final lap neck and neck, but with 220 yards to go Zwirner began his sprint, which opened ground on Reider with every step. Zwirner finished 20 yards ahead of Reider in 4:16.4, a new meet record...
...back to set another meet record in the two-mile. Reider, who had set the pace for most of the race, held a lead of at least 30 yards as Zwirner went into the last lap. Reider began to kick, but on the back-stretch Zwirner opened up a sprint which carried him past Reider at the beginning of the straightaway to win by ten yards in 9:24.3. Dyke Benjamin took third for the varsity...
Extra Weight. Oxford's early sprint earned a brief lead. Carnegie's boatmen slowly dropped back. Their No. 5 oar, Peter Barnard, biggest man in the boat, had collapsed. Carrying his dead weight was too much to ask of any style. At the end of the four-mile 374-yd. race, Cambridge was two lengths in front...