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...balanced scoring attack did the rest and Harvard began to pull away. Johnson, all over the court with his exciting bouncy stride and crowd-pleasing leaps, followed Norlander with 17 points. Bob Kanuth and Gallagher scored 12 apiece and Beller...
...Harvard sqash team romped over Amherst, 9-0, yesterday and took a major stride toward the intercollegiate team championship...
That was the only race Native Dancer ever lost. In a three-year career marred by bad luck (he was knocked off stride by a swerving horse in the Derby) and a succession of physical ailments (bucked shins, stone bruises, a bad ankle, a sore hoof), Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's "Grey Ghost" won 21 out of 22 races and $785,240-surpassing the record of the legendary Man o War. He was such a favorite with the bettors that only in his very first race were Native Dancer's odds higher than 9 to 10. Retired...
...game Baker came down to the last 200 yards in sixth place, but his normal long stride had degenerated into a tired, painfully slow jog. First Navy's Jim Dare and then Columbia's Gary Rosenberg caught him in the drive for the wire...
Nowadays, women take such once dreaded confrontations in stride. "We all laugh when we see ourselves in duplicate or triplicate," says Jo Hughes. Besides, the situation could have been a whole lot worse. For the same $500 dress is owned by no fewer than 150 women, including such other notables as Ethel Kennedy, Cee-Zee Guest, Mrs. Douglas Dillon, Mrs. John R. Drexel III and Mrs. Arthur Gardner. Worn on those backs, proclaimed Society Columnist Suzy Knickerbocker, "it's the dress of the year...