Word: tossing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Puritan Bill Erman won the javelin. His 143-foot toss was nearly 13 feet ahead of Deacon Frank Manheim's effort, with Gene Kearney of Adams third and Bellboy Oscar DePriest fourth. Roger Davis of Adams was a close second in the broad jump, followed by Ronnie Breslow of Lowell and Dann Troxell of Leverett. Funster John Simpson and Owen Edmonds of Kirkland tied for fifth...
...things are said that can be written down on a blackboard, and few things are written down that can be expressed in a picture. Coke sales promotion men put out a slide film on any subject under Coca-Cola's sun (the way lesser men might toss off a memo). Often, a message is too important even for the screen and live drama is used: any good Coke sales promotion man is ready, like a veteran stock actor, to jump into any number of roles at the drop of a bottle...
...athletic prowess was the talk of the countryside. Seizing a 100-lb. blacksmith anvil with one hand, he would lift it straight out and up, and then with both hands toss it over his shoulder. At 44, and holding a brick in each hand, so the story goes, he completed three consecutive standing broad jumps totaling 36 feet. (U.S. standing broad-jump record, without bricks: 11 ft. 4⅞ in.) At 50, he could stand in an empty barrel and jump out without touching...
Three records toppled in the dry heat of Soldiers Field. World champion Jim Fuchs shattered the dual meet mark by four-and-a-half foot with a toss of 56 feet, 6 1-8 inches. In the final event of the day, the 3:19.3 time of the Yale relay team--Warren Norris, Hank Stoltmann, Rolland Sultze, and Fred Swope--broke both the meet and the Yale record...
Another weak spot for Olson's team is the weights. Unlike the case of the varsity, the freshman weight-throwers have contributed little to the team scoring. Yale's Sam Mulligan won the javelin event at Princeton with a toss of over 174 feet. At Dartmouth, Harvard's Lincoln Ferris won under...