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...varsity's stiffest opposition should come from Cornell, Yale, and Army. Cornell has lost only to the Elis--and this on a day when its two best runners, Mike Midler and Dave Eckel, were stricken with flu. The Crimson, of course, beat Yale last week, but the meet was very close, and might well have gone the other...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: Unbeaten Harriers Contend For Heptagonal Championship Today | 11/8/1957 | See Source »

...like you sell a new potato salad" (and brought him in third). Another was Gerald D. Lorge, 35, a "fighting marine" who fought a campaign in Joe McCarthy's image, came in sixth to discover what nearly everyone else realized: even in Wisconsin, McCarthyism is dead. But the stiffest battle came from young ex-Congressman Glenn Davis, 42, who was supported by most conservative Republicans. Davis, who had promised to look Ike in the eye and say No if he got to Washington, carried 31 of Wisconsin's 71 counties, led by 12,000 votes until late returns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Biggest Show in Wisconsin | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

Varsity hockey coach Cooney Weiland and his team have only two thoughts in mind these days: a March excursion to Colorado and an Ivy League hockey title. Both these desires will meet one of their stiffest tests tonight when the Crimson plays second place Dartmouth away...

Author: By James W.B. Benkard, | Title: Sextet Meets Dartmouth Tonight, Needs Win for N.C.A.A. Position | 2/16/1957 | See Source »

...Geordie. The stiffest comic punch the British have delivered since High and Dry-an intoxicating mixture of Scotch and wry; with Bill Travers, Alastair Sim (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Dec. 17, 1956 | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

...Geordie. The stiffest comic punch the British have delivered since High and Dry-an intoxicating mixture of Scotch and wry; with Bill Travers, Alastair Sim (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Dec. 10, 1956 | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

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