Word: winner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...largely the resident dons in Oxford who have a say in the outcome. After weeks of argument at "high tables" and public readings of both men's poetry, the M.A.s filed in their black gowns into the domed Sheldonian to cast their ballots. The sur prise winner at week's end-and Oxford poetry professor for the next five years: Edmund Blunden, with 477 votes v. 241 for Loser Lowell...
...pinched nerves. On the strength of his showing last week, the operation was a success. He had to wear gloves on both hands between shots and use hand warmers besides, but he fired an eleven-under-par 273 to win the Lucky by one stroke and collect his first winner's check-$8,500-in almost two years. "It's nice," he said, "to be back among the players...
Captain Burt Gay, winner of the New York Invitation Tournament over Christmas vacation and top-rated collegian in the country, will probably play number one for the Tigers. He'll be pitted against Harvard captain Dinny Adams in a match which looks like a tossup...
...sophomore, Rick Sterne, will probably face Tom Gilbert in the third match. Gilbert, a senior who has improved rapidly in the past year, shell-shocked Harvard's Craig Stapleton last year for a quick 3-0 victory. Nevertheless, former collegiate freshman champ Sterne looms as Harvard's most likely winner...
...Baker won the mile (4:17.4) and two-mile (9:27.8) to become the day's only double winner. Chris Pardee cleared 6 ft., 8 in. to set a meet and Dartmouth Fieldhouse record...