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...Ritson and Don Alexander were setting the pace, trying gamely to offset the awesome Penn depth. But by then, the race was already reduced to a team battle for second place. Five Quaker runners--freshman Dave Merrick, sophomore Denis Fikes, junior Bob Childs and seniors Julio Piazza and Karl Thornton--were clustered behind the Cornell men and Koerner, and following them was a group that included a comfortable number of Penn shirts...
...halfway mark along the five-mile course, Merrick and Thornton passed Ritson, Childs overtook Alexander, and Koerner dropped to seventh...
After four miles, little had changed. Koerner, the only Harvard man in the top 20, had fallen back to ninth, and Merrick had opened a lead of 100 yards over Thornton and Ritson. At the last, Ritson outkicked Thornton for second, but Merrick held on to win the race in 24:31.8, breaking Doug Hardin's meet record by more than three seconds. Thornton, Childs, Piazza and Fikes swept third through sixth places, and Koerner placed tenth, assuring himself of a berth on the All-Ivy squad. But the next Harvard men were far back--Quirk (23rd), Fred Linsk (35th...
...Quakers leading runners are Dave Merrick, Karl Thornton and Bob Childs. Merrick was Penn's first runner across the line against Villanova, finishing fourth in 25:35, breaking the school record by 26 seconds. Thornton took fifth place in 25:47, also breaking the record...
...call from an executive recruiter. Would Gray be interested in becoming president of United Aircraft Corp., the world's biggest maker of jet engines? Indeed he would, but he laid down one condition. United Aircraft Chairman William P. Gwinn would have to get the approval of Tex Thornton, Litton's chairman, for Gray even to negotiate. "After 17 years as a Litton employee," said Gray, "I didn't want to do anything without its being known from the very beginning...