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Ranking immediately behind Dancer in money earnings in 1962 were Bill Haughton, 39, George Sholty, 30, Del Insko, 31, and John Chapman, 34. The national race-winning driver, in 1961 and 1962, was Bob Farrington, 33. New England's champion is Tug Boyd, 26. Chicago's leader in 1962 was Gene Riegle...
Princeton had never had a Percy Haughton or a Walter Camp, as did Harvard and Yale, but it found a memorable pair of coaches in "Fritz" Crisler and Charlie Caldwell in the 30's and 40's. And during this period, Tiger teams improved while Harvard slowly declined and fell into the Great Depression of 1949 and 1950, when it lost all but two of 17 games...
...Shame. "It is INCREDIBLE!" cried the London Daily Mirror, that not a single person riding on that bus had reported to police the presence of a bloodstained man. Even worse, after the story of the murder appeared in the papers, and the Birmingham C.I.D.'s Chief Superintendent James Haughton made a direct appeal to the passengers ("This bus is vital") that was repeated over radio, on TV, and even flashed on the screens of movie houses, no one came forward...
...Haughton canceled the Christmas leaves of all his 120 detectives and police, set up loudspeakers at football matches to plead for help, assigned some men to ride all No. 8 buses for any information they might pick up. By Sunday, four days after the murder, police had heard from only one passenger. "A busload of shame!" cried the Daily Herald...
...residents are not friendly to cops. Others put it down to the I'm-All-Right-Jack mentality of what the London Daily Express called "the never-had-it-so-good citizenry, stuffed with comfort" and forever asking "What's in it for me?" Said desperate Superintendent Haughton: "The man who committed this dreadful crime is obviously a pathological sadist who could strike again...