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From this point on, however, the English took complete command, interrupted only briefly by Al Wilson's expected win in the shot. Phil Hildreth proved a surprise in the hurdles, beating out Charley Durakis by three yards in the lows and Bob Twitchell by about the same margin in the highs. Hildreth's low hurdles time of 24.1 was a tenth of a second under the old meet curved-track record...
...Charley Thurber, the boys' father, was tall, thin, an inveterate wearer of derby hats, and by profession an unsuccessful politican. Although he kept running for various offices until he was nearly 65, he never got elected to any. When there were six leading candidates for five offices, Charley Thurber would invariably finish sixth. Too honest to play ball with a political machine, and too amiable and gentle to be a winning maverick, he was a chronic also...
...family unit, but they were also a kind of club. Things were apt to be quite electric around the house; just how electric Jim has described in My Life and Hard Times, a book which many Thurberites consider his most durable, masterpiece. * Sometimes it got a little overwhelming for Charley Thurber. In Jim's story, The Night the Bed Fell, occurs the sentence, "It happened, then, that my father had decided to sleep in the attic ... to be away where he could think...
...champion soon began to smooth off some of the rough edges. The reform of Sugar Ray Robinson reached some sort of climax when he phoned Walter Winchell a year ago and offered to give the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund his cut of the gate in the championship fight with Charley Fusari...
Princeton also encourages trips to the Nassau campus, shows athletic films around the country, and sends the affable Charley Caldwell on the chicken-salad circuit...