Word: squashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...R.A.F. hospital, he was greeted with gruesome good cheer: "Long John's got his ruddy undercarriage back." But as they watched him learn to walk-lurching, stumbling, falling, refusing help, getting up, falling again-the affectionate kidding stopped, turned to silent encouragement. Soon Bader was turning somersaults, playing squash and golf (he now has a handicap of 4), and flying a plane. Once he went dancing with a girl he liked very much, and fell in her presence. She helped him up, while he grinned to hide how he felt. That was the first time she ever referred, even...
...around with old cronies, sipping Scotch and water and bursting out with gusts of staccato laughter. He lives in a handsome, ten-room house north of Seattle, with his wife Mary Ellen Field, their son James, and three daughters, Dorothy, Nancy and Ellen. Allen likes to dance, fish, play squash and golf, but seldom has time for such planned fun. On the golf course, he drives partners wild by dashing off every so often to call the plant. Says Allen: "Boeing is always reaching out for tomorrow. This can only be accomplished by people who live, breathe, eat and sleep...
Captain and Third Marshal Forrester A. Clark was then leading his polo team to an undefeated season. Under the coming depression, this sport would be among the first to drop from among the foremost group of minor sport activities. The squash team, which attracted more members of the College in the winter term than any other, again sent its best players Northward ostensibly to compete in the Canadian Championships. The preceding winter, one of the Crimson players had won the tournament, but his main objective in competing had been to bootleg whiskey back across the line into the country...
Winter sports, in terms of victories, did not measure up as successfully as might have been expected, although the polo trio did come through a nine-game schedule undefeated. The squash team was the only other winter aggregate to top Yale. The hockey series with the Elis, though going to the New Haven sextet in three games, will be remembered as one of the closest and hard-fought on record...
James J. Wade '54, Dunster athletic secretary, credited the Houses' sweep of A, B, and C squash titles and the resulting 185 points, wioth providing the necessary lead. Dunster's only other first came in B basketball...