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...member of the Debating Council. Best and Jaffee were winners of the Elizabeth Wilder Prize in their Freshman year, and Jaffee will take a leading role in the annual Leverett House play. Besides being an editor of the CRIMSON, Hall is a member of the Student Council and a high-jump such as Harvard has not seen for several years. Hickam has been active in Phillips Brooks House affairs. Rawson is a Jayvee hockey star, while Terrall is President of the Lampoon...
...Walter Marty, of Fresno State College: a new unofficial world's high-jump record of 6 ft. 9] in., almost an inch more than his old record of 6 ft. 8 3/4in., made indoors last month; in a meet with Sacramento Junior College; at Fresno, Calif...
...points for a team of 22 which finished second. Overnight Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson, a typist for Dallas Employers' Casualty Co., had become a national sports figure. At the Olympic Games two weeks later she won two first prizes (javelin throw, 80-meter hurdles), a second in the high-jump when her best jump was disqualified for ''diving." She complained bitterly because she was not allowed to enter more events. Sportswriters Grantland Rice, Paul Gallico, Westbrook Pegler et al. were sufficiently amazed by Babe Didrikson to investigate her abilities further. She played her nth round of golf...
Kuehn will be out of the picture for the winter season as he dislocated his vertabrae during the football season. The Crimson has depended heavily of him for points in high-jump and shot...
Medals will be given to the first three men in each event, of which there are 11. The 50-yard dash, the 45-yard high hurdles, the 300-yard run, and the 600-yard run will have the preliminary heats run off on Friday, the winners to compete in the finals on Saturday. Three field events, the shotput, 35-pound weight, and the high-jump, will be completely run off on Friday...