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Born in New York, he is the only, person in Harvard history to have won both the Garrison prize in Poetry and the Bowdoin prize in prose composition. He made Phi Beta Kappa and was graduated Summa Cum Lauda. In the next year he received a Henry fellowship, a scholarship to Oxford some-what akin to the Rhodes scholarships...
...field events competition Mike Ford cleared the bar in the pole vault event at 12 feet, 4 inches to win, and Gerry Lenane and Steve Brooks tied for second with Paul Davidson from Bowdoin to prove that the Crimson is well supplied in that event...
...White, Phil Ziegler, and Jack Fisher are the leading Crimson contenders in the 35-pound weight throw, but Wilcox of Rhode Island State, and Styrna of New Hampshire will be right up there. Perkins from Bowdoin, not Niles Perkins, who broke several records, is also very good. Bob Fisher, Bob Chase, Carl Holter, and Bill Fisher constitute the remainder of the home forces...
...mile champion, and Ed Parker. The best race should be the mile, however, which will see Bill Palson and Captain Bob Houghton matching strides with the much-touted Carroll twins. Northeastern has an excellent high-jumper in Paul Hodge, who topped a 6 foot, 11/8 inch bar up at Bowdoin...
With reference to Hollywood's ingenuity in devising peculiar names, you may be interested to know that Pislam Civ (not Siv or Xiv) appeared in the one-act play contest at Bowdoin College in 1936 or 1937, if my memory serves me. This character, however, was male and derived his name from Psalm CIV. Is this a clue to how rapidly an idea travels from Maine to California...