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Captain Bob Gilmor's opponent at 177 pulled the same tactics, depriving Gilmor of a pin. He had to content himself with a decision on two takedowns and a reversal, plus time advantage...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Tigers Down Varsity Wrestlers On Hunt's Heavyweight Win, 15-11 | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...America's top contemporary novelists? Faulkner's ranking: Thomas Wolfe, Faulkner, Dos Passos, Caldwell and Hemingway in that order. Wolfe is on top because "he ventured more and tried hardest to inscribe the whole history of man's heart on the head of a pin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Visitor | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

Culbert should give Hunt a battle at heavyweight, although the Tiger star rates the edge on experience. Culbert has wrestled only two matches so far this season, winning one by pin, and losing the decision in the other...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Crimson Wrestling Squad Will Meet Slightly Favored Princeton in IAB | 2/23/1957 | See Source »

Captain Bob Gilmor then went out and took his man down picked him up and carted him back to the center of the mat so that he could not crawl off, and calmly proceeded to pin him in two minutes flat with a half-nelson and crotch. This set the stage for the heavyweight match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Bows To Gymnasts In Wrestling | 2/21/1957 | See Source »

Dashing hysterically to the school, panicky mothers in pin curls and slacks retrieved their children, led them home through a 20-block area strewn with hunks of fallen metal, fragments of Fiberglas insulation, oxygen tanks. Though wreckage had pierced walls and roofs, no one outside the Junior High schoolyard was seriously hurt. From Los Angeles in the wake of the crash came angry demands for federal controls. But in the San Fernando Valley, anger was tempered by sorrow, and death had wiped magic from the air and sparkling sun. Gathering her child to her tightly, a mother said sadly: "Living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AIR AGE: Death in the Morning | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

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