Word: richardson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Varsity tennis captain Dale Junta won the 1957 New England Intercollegiate Championship one year late by crushing Amherst's Tom Richardson Sunday afternoon at Trinity College in Hartford...
...injury, downed the Lord Jeff number one man with little difficulty, 6-3, 6-1, 6-1. Junta said yesterday that his back didn't bother him at all, an encouraging sign since he will face Yale's Don Dell tomorrow. When Amherst played the Elis, Dell easily defeated Richardson...
Philadelphia's Mayor Richardson Dilworth was crying as he groped for a phrase that could crystallize an emotion. "It is a horrible thing," he sobbed finally, to 50 mourners at the lamplit coffin in a small West Philadelphia funeral home, "that this could happen in our city." The mayor's tears said it better. In the coffin lay the patched body of 26-year-old In Ho Oh, onetime interpreter for U.S. troops in Korea, onetime honor student at Seoul's National University and currently enrolled as a University of Pennsylvania political science exchange student. An eleven...
...himself described the job as one "nobody in his right mind" would want. But in 1954 Lawyer Henry Richardson Labouisse of Wilton, Conn, became director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Beirut, and took on the thankless task of caring for more than 900,000 Arab refugees from Palestine. Labouisse gradually broke down Arab resistance to UNRWA, traveled all over Europe describing the plight of his refugees and gently dunning U.N. members for funds...
Since Junta did not play, Larry Sears moved up to the number one singles position. But the usually excellent lefty was in very poor form, losing to Richardson in straight sets, 6-1, 6-1. A former New England junior champion, Richardson completely outclassed Sears, displaying a fine net game and beautiful passing shots...