Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Despite the preponderance of second-year men, the appears to be quite a strong squad, with its main weakness coming through the light-heavyweight divisions. Johnny Lee, the lightweight at 123, and Humphrey Heldtmann, the heavyweight, are--next to Captain Dave Smith--probably the best wrestlers Pickett has, Heldmann, a defensive guard on the football team, was not eligible to wrestle last winter...
...biggest problem will be in the middleweights. Johnny Lee, a member of last year's freshman team, has looked good in early practices and has been given the starting assignment at the lightweight position...
...Paris, the U.S.'s Joe Pitman over Russia's V. Svetilko for the world lightweight weight-lifting championship. Said Joe: "That Russian was the only one I really wanted to beat." The U.S. went on to win the team title...
Wright's design called for a hexagonal, unornamented theater built of lightweight metal. To eliminate what he calls "the peep-show character" of conventional theater productions. Wright had eliminated the proscenium arch, set the stage far out into the auditorium. His theater, Wright rumbled last week, was not just one more place to stage shows: "We are fighting to save the theater which needs new tools if it is to come abreast of the medium of movies. We thought this was a good place to begin our crusade...
...Wobble. Though the Associated combine was liquidated after the crash, Gossard continued to make money, helped by the economies of Production Man Savard and Paris dressmakers' rediscovery of curves. Gossard also helped develop a lightweight, two-way stretch fabric called powernet (used by all big corset and girdle makers today), and got a long lead by using it first. Says Savard proudly: "The fattest kind of woman doesn't wobble when she wears powernet...