Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Benjamin scored his sixth straight first place by covering the wintry five-mile course in 25 min., 48 sec. Benjamin's winning time was 12 seconds slower than the record which he set in ideal running conditions against the University of Massachusetts last Tuesday. But even with the poor weather and lack of competition, Coach Bill McCurdy praised Benjamin's performance as "heartening for the Yale meet next weekend...
Laris, who had been heralded as one of the best high school milers in the country last year, justified the advance reports as he set a new course record in the rainy weather by chopping 36 seconds off the old time. Laris broke away from previously unbeaten Yardling captain Marc Mullin before the one mile mark and coasted home with a new record...
Having voted power to De Gaulle, France relaxed under blue skies and in gentle fall weather. At Longchamps the crowds were out for the running of the race of the year, the 40 million-franc Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. Men in morning coats and grey cravats walked amid the drift of chestnut leaves with elegant women in Balenciaga and Dior gowns and outsize souffle hats. A few miles across town in the cavernous glass-roofed Grand Palais, thousands of other Frenchmen thronged the annual Salon de l'Auto to stare with passionate absorption at the chromium...
Hero Griffith earns his nickname when he shaves his skull egg-bald in hopes of growing thicker hair. When not engaged in scalping himself, he bangs pans by day and bumblefoots around the local talent (Felicia Farr) by night, but hits stormy weather on both fronts. His chief cook (Walter Matthau), a sardonic old coot with a mania for cinnamon rolls, marries the girl. Then Cookie ships out for convoy duty, and Griffith finds himself heating up both the gal and the gallery...
Edward Estlin Cummings, 64 next week, is the goat-footed balloonMan of U.S. poetry, an image he himself used to describe a Pan-piping street vendor of gay toy balloons. In the weather of this poet's heart the season is spring, and as this first collection of new poems in eight years testifies, there is plenty of spring left in his lines (95 Poems; Harcourt, Brace; $4). As ever, Poet Cummings celebrates the life of feeling-love, death and the infinite sea changes of nature. Age has only slightly mellowed Cummings, has not at all curbed his typographical...