Word: weightman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feet in the Yale meet last spring, will now be able to turn his full attention to track. Unless Fisher breaks his leg between now and the beginning of the season, he is expected to better the present record by at least ten feet. When Sam Felton, second ranking weightman, who placed third, right behind Fisher in the indoor IC4A 35-pound weight event, came here last fall from Dartmouth, he could twirl the hammer 150 feet. Then assistant coach Ed Flanagan took over and "showed me what was wrong." Within four days, Felton was throwing 167 feet. Phil Zeigler...
...versatile Irv Mondschein. A violet in name only, Mondschein broad jumps better than 25 feet, high jumps 6 feet 7 inches, and is entered in 5 events. To assist hi, the New Yorkers have a pair of 50 foot shot-putters, Mayer and Lampert, Max Padla, a 250-pound weightman, and the Callender twins...
...Army sabers rattled through Europe. From Paris, the New York Times's chief foreign correspondent Cyrus Leo Sulzberger reported that "certain [Red Army] units" around Trieste and in southeastern Germany had "been put on the qui vive." Next day, the Times's chief military analyst Hanson Weightman Baldwin mildly pooh-poohed such rumors, declared that the Red Army was demobilizing. His estimate of remaining occupation forces: 2,000,000 plus...
...ward. The big blasts usually engage Pravda's old (64), red-faced, always-angry David Iosifovitch Zaslavsky (among his targets: Wendell Willkie, William Randolph Hearst). Last week Triggerman Zaslavsky turned his howitzer on the New York Times''s big gun of military reportage and analysis, Hanson Weightman Baldwin. Comrade Zaslavsky called him "Admiral of an Ink Pool...