Word: vaults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago WBKB leaped from fourth to first place by launching 740 RKO movies with a showing of Rosalind Russell in The Velvet Touch, and two other stations rushed in fresh Hollywood features of their own. Philadelphia's WFIL led its field late at night by dipping into a vault newly stocked by RKO, M-G-M and 20th Century...
...even huskier broth of a boy four years later, had other ideas. "The good Lord," said Campbell, had told him to try the decathlon rather than the hurdles, and the young (23) Negro poured it on in almost every event. Only a surprisingly poor showing in the pole vault (11 ft. 1¾ in.) kept Campbell from breaking Rafer Johnson's world record of 7,985 points. But he scored only 48 points less than that, to top Mathias' Olympic mark and enthrone himself as the greatest all-round athlete in the world...
...Brien, world's best shotputter, got off a 60 ft. 4½ in. toss to stay in front of Teammates Bill Nieder and Ken Banturn. California's Bob Richards and Bob Gutowski cleared 14 ft. 8 in. and George Mattos reached 14 ft. to dominate the pole vault. Lanky Charley Dumas, only man ever to high jump 7 ft. officially, settled for 6 ft. 6 in., two inches ahead of Teammates Phil Reavis and Vern Wilson. High Hurdlers Jack Davis, Lee Calhoun and Joel Shankle also finished 1, 2, 3. In a later meet, Davis set a world...
...performs a useful function. As the commandant of a "center," the Council would injure the free-workings of every organization which came within intercommunicating range of the president. Whether or not the present Council considers this desirable, the good possibility remains that a new concrete center might prove a vault for healty undergraduate activities...
...daughter of one of Philadelphia's oldest clans, it is set in the middle of what she claims was her family, a world dominated by a pleasantly enthusiastic millionaire who believes in having fun ("You can't save life, or store it, or put it in a vault. You have to plunge in.") The play's purpose is to show Mr. A.J. Drexel Biddle and his family plunging...