Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four trackmen will join the lacrosse, golf, rugby, and baseball squads this weekend in the massive Crimson athletic exodus from Cambridge...
Dave Hawkins, defending National A.A.U. champion in the 100-yard butterfly, will attempt to retain his crown over the new longer 220-yard distance--and against the man who beat him last weekend--at New Haven tomorrow...
Hawkins did a 2:13.3 in the same race at the Eastern's last Saturday, but this weekend his dolphin kick wasn't working so well, and he was forced to revert to the standard frog...
...leisurely weekend of social fun and political games at the executive mansion in Albany, New York's Democratic Governor W. Averell Harriman and his guest, Chicago Lawyer Adlai Stevenson, greeted each other, smilingly discovered their neckties were of the same color and design. Asked whether he thought that President Eisenhower would run for reelection in 1956, Stevenson, always cagy about his own political future, replied: "I suspect he will." Later, the two leading contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination next year (although Harriman is still on record as favoring Stevenson) put their heads together privately, compared designs...
Dave Hawkins, who established an intercollegiate and American mark for the 200-yard butterfly with a 2:13.3 clocking, is expected to better that time at Oxford. He will have to if he hopes to beat the gentleman whose 2:15.8 record he broke at the Easterns last weekend, the University of Michigan's Bumpy Jones...