Word: hammered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wilson was the real star of the day though as he won three events: the shot put, the hammer throw, and the discus, for the third consecutive meet...
...looks like he's going to develop the same way during the Spring. Already he has tossed the discuss 160 ft. 9 in., more than ten feet further than his best effort last year, and he has improved by more than 12 feet in the hammer...
...favored over Dartmouth. But in the next year few weeks, the squad will be meeting far stiffer competition. The GBC meet includes not only Hemery (second in the NCAA high hurdles indoors and second to Tom Farrell in the indoor BAA 600), but also Boston College's 200-foot hammer thrower, John Flore and Northeastern distance runner Dave Dunsky...
...slim, tense 24-year-old makes his American debut at Carnegie Hall with the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor. The conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham, takes the tempo slowly, deliberately. Horowitz's fingers are like coiled springs of Russian steel; they tear with trip-hammer speed and force across the keys, and in the last movement he arrives at the end four measures ahead of the orchestra. The audience roars its affection for the impatient pianist; it is the beginning of a lifelong affair. Even the crusty Beecham cracks a smile. Paderewski calls Horowitz the best...
...Wilson, Harvard's sophomore weightman who has been constantly improving all spring, will throw the hammer and the discuss today...