Word: winners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity swimming team closes its 1958-59 season this weekend at the NCAA championships at Cornell. Defending champion Michigan will lead the awesome array of powerful midwestern schools, which have much greater talent than even Eastern winner Yale. The Big Ten colleges in particular possess world-calibre swimmers, which should easily beat Yale's contingent...
...international meets, but last week a young 18-year-old from Duluth, Minn, placed tenth against the world's best at the Holmenkollen in Oslo, Norway. He would have done still better had he not faltered on one landing. As it was, Eugene Robert Kotlarek actually outjumped the winner, and established himself in a sport traditionally dominated by Europeans...
Veeck is the man who gave Cleveland fans a "bartenders' day," staged midget-auto races in the ballpark, and with a pennant winner (1948), posted a major-league record for season attendance that still stands. In St. Louis, he gave the fans clowns, once used a midget as lead-off batter (he drew a base on balls), even let spectators manage the team for several games by flashing "yes" and "no" cards to questions of strategy. Yet the carnival atmosphere was no substitute for success. The Browns did not win, and Veeck tried to get the franchise transferred...
...With one winner and four runners-up, Dunster won the House intramural wrestling tournament last night. Kirkland and Eliot tied for second place, each having one winner and two runners-up. Wrestlers from eight freshman dorms competed at the same time, as Thayer South and Stoughton tied for first place...
...each has a certain number of alternatives for every cue. Wolff is writing for his performers quite as much as for his audience. In discussing this technique he does not refer to Western precedent, but talks about Hindu instrumental virtuosos, who play complicated rhythmic games with each other; the winner is the performer who succeeds in upsetting the other's patterns...