Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...singles matches were over in less than an hour as Frank Ripley, Dave Benjamin, Clive Kileff, Bob Inman, and Sandy Walker all turned in easy wins. In a surprising number two match, however, Columbia captain Hank Kaplan upset Chum Steele with his steady ground-stroke game and dumped the Crimson junior in straight sets...
After a number of boating changes early this week, Cabot came up with a varsity combination late Wednesday that has shown good speed and has a definite edge over the JV's. But with five sophomores, including an untried stroke in the first boat, inexperience will provide the big question mark...
Sophomore Peter Schwab, who moved into the stroke position just this week, "has been a most pleasant surprise," Cabot said. Columbia, the loser last week to Princeton, does not figure to be as tough as last spring, but Rutgers, which will race only in the varsity contest, has already defeated Penn this year and may be the team to beat...
...father, set up a New York branch in 1940 that outpaced Paris headquarters, expanded to Palm Beach and Caracas marketing such wares as Napoleon's emeralds and a 34.6-carat pink Indian diamond but never, never talking about who bought what or for how much; of a stroke; in Manhattan...
...battled top brass to return to duty ("Hell, Admiral, the Navy doesn't expect a man to think with his feet," he told "Bull" Halsey), by 1950 won command of the Seventh Fleet's Carrier Division III, whose jet squadrons led the attack in Korea; of a stroke; in Falls Church...