Word: winners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hockey games with Yale in 1931 attracted particular interest, since the winner would get the unofficial title of best in North America. The Crimson had lost only once, after the exam period layoff, and had beaten both McGill and Toronto. Ellis led the team from the goal, while Garrison and Samuel L. Batchelder '31 were on the starting team all season...
...Nieman Foundation has announced the appointment of 11 American news papermen, including Pulitzer Prize winner J. Anthony Lewis '48, as Nieman Fellows...
...while Flaherty stayed out in front, where he had installed himself on the 76th lap (of 200). Behind him, Bob Sweikert, last year's winner, blew a tire after 325 miles, bounced off a wall and rolled to the pits on his rim; he never made up his lost time. Another car, its brakes locked, spun into the pits, caromed off a competitor and hit a mechanic. Tires kept popping, and the yellow lights flared; three drivers, two pit crew members and two spectators were injured...
...Flaherty well knew, the "500" is always like that. All goes well for the man in front; the boys in the back ride with trouble. By getting in front and staying there, Driver Flaherty got the $93,819 winner's purse, including $19,050 in lap prizes-the juiciest reward of any Memorial Day drive...
...this first-novel winner of the Houghton Mifflin award, Author Burdick gives a reverse twist to the cozy U.S. sociological convention that coarse, conservative fathers produce sensitive, nonconformist sons. It is a study of Mike Freesmith, whose father was a radical so militant he once smashed the family Christmas tree into bourgeois smithereens. To contrast his old man, Mike determines to become a "big wheeler and dealer." He starts rolling as a clean-limbed, sexually limber nihilist on a surfboard off the coast of South ern California. He is supposed to be getting an education; instead he is educating...