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...year was 1964 when Edward ("Ned") Coll, an idealistic 24, left his promising job as a junior executive with a Hartford, Conn., insurance firm to found a social-action agency. Professionals and family were not amused. "It will take $80,000 to get started, and don't count on volunteers," gruffed the local antipoverty chief. When he started going around to newspapers to sell his cause, his father, a retired postal clerk, would call ahead and warn the editor that Ned was not to be taken seriously...
Shnayerson's own biography could make story material for Harper's. He was born Robert Beahan, the son of a playwright and a distant cousin of Brendan Behan. His mother's second marriage was to a New York surgeon, Ned Shnayerson, who adopted him when he was eight. Shnayerson was subsequently shipped off to a succession of twelve schools. "It was," he recalls, "a miserable but interesting childhood, the kind that-if you survive-makes you stronger for having had it." After World War II service in the Navy (fleet oilers, submarines), he worked briefly...
Whatever marks the Class of '21 left on Harvard, perhaps none has stood the test of time as well as the University broad jump record of 25' 3" set 50 years ago this July by the late Ned Gourdin '21. Harvard's second-oldest track record is only 13 years...
Once again, no one came close to breaking the meet record in the broad jump (25'3") set 50 years ago by Ned Gourdin '21 Harvard's Olympian. S. H. White of Oxford was the winner last night with a leap...
...Harvard's records was set in the Oxford-Cambridge meet 50 years ago in Harvard Stadium when Ned Gourdin '21 jumped 25'-3" in the broad jump. Gourdin was the first man to exceed 25 feet, and his performance that day set a world record. Even this year, the two jumpers Yale is sending have not equalled 24 feet...