Word: pennington
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Little is known about the strength of the British outfit, except that it beasts a capable three-miler (over there they leave two-mile races to schoolboys), and a very hot quarter-miler in the former of Pennington, British Olympic 220 ace. The Oxford-Cambridge outfit is also fairly strong in the hurdle department...
...Pennington and Marilyn Miller, Jerome Kern and Vincent Youmans, "When It's Moonlight in Ka-lu-a," "Rose-Marie, I Love You." In the season 1924-1925, to pick a sample year, there were 46 musical shows on Broadway...
...oppose Harvard-Yale and Princeton-Cornell, generally shine in the running events but are defeated because of poor performances in the field events. Publicized as the strongest group ever sent, this year's Oxford-Cambridge team proved unusually well-balanced. Relying on both team "Presidents" (captains), Alan Pennington (Oxford) and Godfrey Brown (Cambridge), for double wins, the Britishers had unbeatable talent on the track except in the hurdles. In the field they boasted a Turk who could shot-put 49 ft., a high-jumper who could clear 6 ft. 3 in., and Frederick Richard Webster, first Briton ever...
...well. In the high jump and shot put Cambridge's Robert Kirk Inches Kennedy and Ali Irfan of Istanbul set new meet records. And Cambridge's Webster topped Princeton's Standish Medina, suffering from a pulled leg muscle, with a 13-ft. pole-vault. Though President Pennington took the 100 and 220-yd. sprints handily and President Brown breezed to victory in the quarter mile, these three victories in the field > proved invaluable when Princeton-Cornell proceeded to win both the mile and two-mile runs to bring their total to five firsts. As at Cambridge fortnight...
...public service tomorrow evening will be held by the Reverend Palfrey Perkins, Minister of King's Chapel, Boston. The service this afternoon will be conducted by the Reverend C. Leslie Glenn, Rector of Christ Church, Cambridge; while tomorrow's service will be conducted by the Reverend Leslie T. Pennington, Minister of the Christ Church in Cambridge, Unitarian...