Word: jeff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afternoon at 1 p.m. in the Tufts Cage, the weight and broad jump events will be run off. Entered in the 35-pound weight for the varsity are Jim Doty, John DuMoulin and freshman Dunc Johnson. In the shotput, Doty, Carl Pescosolido, and Jeff Paley, a freshman, will represent the Crimson. Dave Gately will be the lone entrant in the broad jump...
Coach Ed Stowell's freshman track team opens its season tomorrow afternoon, meeting the Dartmouth freshmen at Hanover. On the basis of its practice so far, the team looks stronger in the weights than in its running events. Dunc Johnson in the 35 lb. weight and Jeff Paley in the shot appear among the best prospects on the squad...
George gets them. His trials begin with the sudden death of his talented older brother Jeff, who had designed and built the Tower in the West, one of the first skyscrapers in St. Louis. Six months after the fatal accident, George learns that his brother's widow is pregnant by another man. To protect Jeff's good name, he marries her and breaks the heart of true-blue Margaret Carton, who has been patiently waiting for his proposal. George now proceeds to mishandle the affairs of his stepchildren, loses control of his brother's monumental Tower...
...Scout Congressman, John Kaffey; the carnival hustler, Chick Samstag (who was so cynical that "the failure of tomorrow's sunrise would not have astonished him"). But Author Norris writes with more love of buildings than of people. Rhapsodies to the 20-story "thing of beauty" created by Jeff Hanes run murmurously through the book, and the Tower, though defaced by the years and its occupants, never becomes as caitiff or craven as the people who live from its earnings. Sometimes the book's human characters seem as lifeless as statuary against the soaring and vital affirmations built from...
...freshman scrimmage, a kick in the stomach tore loose some of Parry's groin muscles. "Thereafter," he recalls, "any grunting effort would result in excruciating pain. The frosh team was under the direction of Harry 'Black Jack' Smith then. He taught football like it was war. Jeff Cravath was varsity coach. Between the two of them, I about lost interest in the game." Another man who helped ease Parry out of his football pads was Wilbur ("Moose") Thompson, U.S.C.'s 1948 Olympic shotput winner, who had watched the blond, well-larded freshman working out with...