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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshman meet is a toss-up. On Wednesday, the Yardlings, without their ace Ed Hamlin, took an 18-43 beating from Andover. Hamlin should be back in action today, however, and the Crimson has at least an even chance...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Harriers Oppose Penn, Columbia In Triangular Meet at New York | 10/16/1959 | See Source »

...newcomer to the 62-man crew, son of the headmaster of a Roman Catholic school in Holland, married (18 months ago to the daughter of a leather manufacturer), a prospective father. Moreover, handsome Willem Van Rie had something that most sailors can only dream about as they toss in their lonely bunks on the heaving seas: a pretty girl with whom he was involved in a shipboard romance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: End of the Romance | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

Whipping around the moon and returning to the earth is considerably harder than hitting the moon, as Lunik II did. A little too much speed could toss the probe beyond the moon and into an orbit around the sun. Slightly bad aim or timing could make the probe crash into the moon. Even harder is putting an object into a permanent orbit around the moon, but the Russians apparently did not hope to do that-not this time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lunik III | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...general, the British performers were suprisingly inept in the field events. England's two discus men, Arthur Perry and G. R. Northern of Oxford were great hulks of men, but they had trouble coming within 20 feet of the winning toss by Pyle of Yale. On the other hand, the wispy English distance runners ran circles around their larger American opponents. The two-mile was originally planned as a three-mile test, but was shortened out of courtesy to the Americans. Even so, Benjamin, the best American two-miler, was 11 seconds behind Oxford's Gilligan. While the Americans religiously...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Touring Harvard-Yale Track Team Takes Oxford-Cambridge Classic | 10/2/1959 | See Source »

...peripatetic careers (three high schools, two colleges, four pro teams), which had largely been botched by the boisterous stage-mothering of stepfather Harvey Knox. "Football is a game for animals," said Ronnie. "I like to think I'm above that." Dreaming of higher things, Ronnie allowed he might toss off a novel or some poetry, already had some lines at hand that lurched with the proper beatnik beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Sep. 28, 1959 | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

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