Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson is minus the services of number five man Mac Brown, out for the season with a knee injury, it will have number two man Dave Norris in top shape and a constantly improving Jim Schlaeppi backing up Reider. Rounding out the Crimson lineup are Ralph Perry, Bill Thompson, Bob Holmes, Bill Morris, John Read, Dick Wharton, and physically sub-par Captain Dave McLean...
Completing the varsity lineup will be Captain Dave McLean, seniors Dick Wharton, Bob Holmes, John Read, and Bill Morris; junior Ralph Perry; and sophomores Bill Thompson, Mac Brown, Jim Schlaeppi, and Lary Lavers...
...found Herman had ample campaign money and was pulling far ahead. Listening to his friends' pleas, Walter George made a painful decision. He withdrew before the primary, accepted a post as Dwight Eisenhower's ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Herman stomped over Old Foe Melvin Thompson with a 376,000 majority and a grand slam of the county unit votes...
Died. Michel Detroyat, 50, flamboyant French stunt pilot who in 1932 set a record for flying upside down (26 min. 2.4 sec.), later (1936) became the first foreigner to win the UfS.'s Thompson Trophy race (at a record 264.261 m.p.h.); of a cerebral embolism; in Paris...
...five finishers. With the pressure generated by the loss of Reider and Norris on, all ran their best races of the season. Ralph Perry, who finished second, knocked 25 seconds off his best previous time, while the third finisher, Dick Wharton, knocked a full minute from his. Sophomores Bill Thompson and Mac Brown both continued their steady improvement, an omen which augurs well for the future. Thompson, who placed fourth, ran 50 seconds better than his previous best, while fifth finisher Brown did 34 seconds faster...