Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...swagger if Gerard Philippe had put a little more spirit into the role. Armand wagers that he can, before the company goes on maneuvers, "win the favors of" some young mademoiselle, who has yet to be selected. At the provincial Red Cross ball Armand decides, by chance, on the holder of lottery ticket 34. She turns out to be a newly-arrived young woman named Marie-Louise Riviere, who looks sad and disillusioned, and remains that way throughout the film. The rest of the plot breaks no new ground. As Armand rather listlessly woos Marie-Louise, alternately losing and winning...
Things might have been different if Dave Gouldin hadn't thought fast on the second Tiger extra point. Holder Hugh Scott couldn't find the handle on the ball, but Gouldin booted it right out of his hands and over the crossbar...
When Fitzgerald was hurt last fall, Mullin, then a sophomore, took over as the squad's pace-setter and recorded a strong sixth-place finish in the Harvard-Yale. Princeton meet. Holder of the University mile record of 4:10.6, Mullin has good speed and thrives on hilly courses...
...pole vault, the U.S.'s outspoken Don ("Tarzan'') Bragg, 25, had made such an impression on the Italian press that one paper called him "the handsomest athlete in Rome and perhaps the vainest." Holder of the world record at 15 ft. 9¼ in., Bragg caused a brief flurry when he flubbed his first try at the qualifying height of 14 ft. 5¼ in. But when the competition settled down, Bragg forgot his nerves, his gimpy right knee, and the fact that he had to hoist a heavyweight's body...
...Russia and the U.S. stood one-two in the unofficial team standings in the 1960 Olympic Games. Top moments of the Olympics' second week: ¶ In the high jump, the U.S. thought it had its surest gold medal candidate: Boston University's lithe John Thomas, 19. holder of the world record at 7 ft. 31n. Confident as ever, Thomas seemed reluctant even to take off his sweat suit for early jumps. When the competition began in earnest. Thomas seemed safe enough. The best man of the challenging trio of Russians had never gone over...