Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This season eager Yale undergraduates and townspeople have crammed Payne Whitney gym to watch slender, 6 ft. 3 Tony Lavelli shoot baskets. He was as far from the old "Pudge" Heffelfinger mold in Yale athletes as was tiny footballer Albie Booth. For one thing, he was apt to be shy in a crowd; for another, what he really wanted to be was a musician. A competent piano and accordion player already, he hopes "to pick up some day in the musical comedy composing field where Cole Porter and Irving Berlin leave off." But with his long fingers Tony Lavelli could...
...following men contributed to the Winthrop exhibit: H.L.W. Brorby '50, W.Y.M. Chang '50, G. Groff-Smith '50, P. Hillman '48, S.D. Kranz '50, J.G. McNear '50, A. Taub '51, G.H. Whitney, Jr. '50, R.L. Wise '51, J.W. Woodard '48, H. Zubell...
...Vulcan's Forge, a horse recently sold by Millionaire Sportsman C. V. ("Sonny") Whitney for $80,000, got it all back in one lump for his new owner, I. J. Collins of Lancaster, Ohio, by winning the world's richest race-the Santa Anita Handicap (value to the winner...
...Captain Bob Claflin and a decision by Howie Houston saved the Harvard wrestling team from a shutout as Yale kept its long winning streak alive with a 20 to 8 victory Saturday on the Payne Whitney mats...
...convincing a display of shot artistry as has yet, or very well may over grace the Payne Whitney emporium, Tony Lavelli counted a miraculous 40 points to almost single-handedly thwack a gaping Tiger, 74-48, on Saturday night." (from the Yale Dally News, February...