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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Helen ("Helenita") Kleberg, 21, blonde daughter of Robert Justus Kleberg Jr., boss of Texas' huge, fabulous King Ranch (976,000 acres, 390 oil wells, 3,000 horses, including Derby Winner Assault); and Dr. John Deaver Alexander, 25, staff physician at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital; in Kingsville...
Vaclav E. Benes '50, winner of last year's event, turned in the fastest time on his racing bike, but he had to be satisfied with second place on his mark of 35 minutes, 20 seconds. The handicapping system, which allowed five minutes for touring bikes and ten minutes extra for balloon-tire entries, give first place to tourer Anderson. E. George cloutier '51 was awarded third place after a meeting of the best mathematical minds of the Outing Club, which sponsored the race...
Recent graduates took five of the first 20 places. Gus Klein of the Engineering School came in second just 3.6 seconds behind the winner, Stewart of Dartmouth, who was a member of this year's Olympic ski team. Bob Fisher came in seventh, Bob Wood, eleventh, Roger Wilson, fourteenth, and Vin Brandt, seventeenth. Crimson captain Graham Taylor came in ninth in 54.0, closely followed by Gordon Abbott, tenth. Captain elect Rod Nordblom was twelfth, Don Justus, thirteenth, and Laurie Grifflin fifteenth...
...inducement is a Schwinn "New World" bicycle, which will be handed out by Bow Street's Bicycle Exchange to the lucky winner of the race. Just what the victor is supposed to do with the cycle he won the race on is nuclear, but as Hegel says, onward and upward...
...half miles in an hour, and that a hotshot, loaded with ephedrine and the will to win, can navigate the distance in the neighborhood of a half hour. For the record, the best time was turned in by one John T. Potter '42, a two time winner who hurtled the ten and a half miles in a scant 28 minutes, 30 seconds back...