Word: tossings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foot 11 1/2 inch toss of the 35-pound weight in the Hoptagonal Games last week was five and one-half inches more than Robert B. Forsyth '50, needed to become the first winner of the Improvement Prize. Forsyth's heave won him a third place in the meet...
...placed were: Pat McCormick who arrived fifth in the 45-yard hurdles; Andrew Lockett tied with Andrew Kirk of Penn for fifth in the pole vault at 12 feet, 6 inches; Robert Forsyth finished third in the 35-pound weight throw with a 53 feet, 11 1/2 inch toss; and Howard Reed placed fourth with a heave of 51 feet 5 7/8 inches; Donald Trimble finished fifth in the shotput with a throw of 48 feet, 9 inches; David Carter jumped 22 feet, 6 inches to place third in the broad jump; and John Harrigan was tied for fifth place...
...Felton didn't break any window at Briggs Cago yesterday afternoon but his toss of 56 feet, 3 3/8 inches in special AAU open 35-pound weight throw was the goe-whiz performance of the four-event AAU track meet...
Hollywood, which is notoriously touchy about harsh words from outsiders, listened last week to a plain-spoken spat between two of its own. Producer Sam Goldwyn began it by deciding to toss in his lot with the independent film producers (S.I.M.P.P.). He announced that he was quitting the two trade associations of the major studios (M.P.A.A. and A.M.P.P.), because "there must be a return to real free enterprise in our industry." Dapper Eric Johnston, who heads them both, took a deep breath and fired...
...that elementary and secondary schools are going to be served first by the present Congress. Colleges will have to limp along, and the sizzling issues of aid to private schools and southern segregated education will doubtless be finessed at the present too. But if the Administration really wants to toss a lot of money into the states' school systems this year, it will probably have little trouble. David E. Lillenthal...