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Siler, of Orinda, Calif., and Winthrop House is captain of the varsity track team and is concentrating in Spanish History. A shot-putter and discus thrower, he placed second and first respectively in these events in last spring's Heptagonals. Siler is also a senior member of Phi Beta Kappa and a National Scholar...
...dead-calm day in Sydney last week, Student Pilot Anthony Thrower, practicing take-offs and landings at Bankstown airport, stalled the engine of his light Auster plane a few feet from the ground, but made the landing safely, brakes on-he thought. Deciding to start his engine unaided, he advanced the throttle, jumped out of the cockpit and swung the prop. To his surprise, as the engine started, the plane began to move. Thrower grabbed a wing strut, but was unable to hold the plane; it roared downfield, took off and began circling the airport at a height...
...hair, a handsome profile and the glamorous job of putting on revues at South Wind. To the despair of Noel's aspiring, pimply assistant, Wally Wronken, Airman is a triple-threat man-an artist, a libertine and an intellectual who can shred phony highbrows "like a flame thrower...
...muscle and weight. He also began to fool around with the 35-lb. weightthrow, a track & field event normally reserved for bulge-bellied giants-in fact, the weight men are commonly called "whales." At Tufts College, Backus, still slim but taking on weight, became a better-than-average weight-thrower, but he was always in the shadow of his roommate Tom Bane, who in 1951 set a world record with a throw...
...Elis scored heavily in the weights, pole vault, middle distances, and mile run. Steward Thompson, a massive weight thrower and shot putter, took both events for Yale with heaves of 53 feet 3 1/4 inches and 50 feet 4 1/4 inches respectively...