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...with the failure or success of the Harvard-Yale track team's mission in England hanging upon what he and three other runners did in the next 40-odd seconds. As it turned out, the four determined sprinters--Landau and Frank Yeomans of Harvard and Jay Luck and Jim Carney of Yale--won the final relay and gave the Americans a thrilling 8-7 victory over the combined forces of Oxford and Cambridge...
Running second against Rex Van Rossum of Oxford, Yeomans really turned it on and gave the baton to Luck with a six-yard margin. Luck and Carney added two yards to the final eight-yard edge. The time, a meet record...
...wound up 45 years in the Navy with a chestful of decorations and five-star fleet-admiral's rank. He said: "Let the younger fellow's take over." and Bull Halsey's officers-Forrest Sherman, Arthur Radford, Mick Carney, Arleigh Burke-did. He put in a stint for International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., launched but lost a fund-raising drive to save his old flagship Big E from the scrap heap. "Remember!" he rasped. "Scrapped ships will not rest peacefully in deep blue waters beside the gallant Lexington, Wasp, Hornet, Houston, Atlanta, and all the brave others...
America Pauses for the Merry Month of May (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). The first edition of this vocal version of Wide Wide World hardly showed signs of budding, but the seed catalogue is impressive: Marian Anderson, Carol Haney, Art Carney...
...Stack of Yale. Art Cahn's fine 1:53.4 effort in the 880 was good only for second behind Bulldog Tom Carroll. Steve Snyder of Yale edged out Yeomans, who ran a 9.8 100. Joel Landau lost the first low hurdle race of his career to Jim Carney of Yale, and he was shuut out in the 220. Only Landau's 14.9 in the high hurdles and Benjamin's 9:12.0 in the two-mile were good enough for firsts in the running events...