Word: squashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Princetonians know Jack Crocker, now 39, as a big, dark-haired, broad-browed man who looks like Napoleon in his youth, likes his exercise (squash and tennis), loves to argue, has a laugh like a small thunderclap, six children and a comely wife (née Mary Hallowell, sister of two famed Harvard athletes) who sometimes needs to remind him where he parked his car. An earnest student, a disciple of Humanist Paul Elmer More, Crocker is a practitioner of "muscular Christianity." In this he resembles old Dr. Peabody, who used to play games with his students...
...show based on bank night, is a Monday night MBS half-hour sponsored by Dunhill Cigarettes. Candidates picked from the studio audience, asked to name, for example, three vegetables beginning with S, win $2 for each right answer. If a mike-scared quizee can think of spinach, cannot remember squash or salsify, he wins only $2, and the remaining $4 goes into a jackpot. Near the program's end the candidates get a chance to share the jackpot by writing answers to a Toughie (e.g., Name three State capitals named after Presidents). If there is still no winner...
Latest undergraduate sports captain to add his condemnation of the report to that of many others is Kim de S. Canavarro '40, captain-elect of Coach Jack Barnaby's squash team. Canavarro's main objections are based upon the contention that the Council's report would "make the coaching situation impossible...
...According to the Council's logic, there is no reason, other than financial, for retaining major sports teams if minor are scrapped. And why retain the major sports that are not self-supporting? The fact that tennis and squash are classed as minor is scarcely a condemnation--or is it? Interest in them is just as high as in any major sport...
...study it, consult captains, players, coaches, Bingham, Samborski, and House secretaries until they know what they are talking about, and then, resisting the impulse to generalize, confine themselves to specific recommendations for each sport. I believe more progress and less furor would follow. John M. Barnaby, Coach Tennis and Squash...