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Plainfield was plain delighted. All told, Milt had racked up 7,235 points in history's fourth best decathlon performance. Though holding a fistful of bids to attend more than 50 U.S. colleges, U.S. Decathlon Champion Campbell is looking far beyond college and the 1956 Olympics. He well knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Field Day in Plainfield | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

His junior year advanced courses might include Mathematics 1050a and Physics 131 in the fall term and Physics 111 and 132 in the spring. Physics 131, a more rigorous mathematical treatment of direct current electrical phenomena and magnetism, is one of the most difficult courses in the department.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: History & Literature to Social Relations | 4/23/1953 | See Source »

The active day began with the "Macfadden Bed Exercise," in which each mate turned outward on the double bed and put the limbs through slashing, scissor movements, meanwhile straining the torsos inward. There followed calisthenics before the open window, dumbbell exercises, headstands and one-legged squatting exercises. The body was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life with a Genius | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

The Harvard Mountaineering Club's summer camp will, however, teach something more rigorous--how to survive when climbing mountains. Horsing with mountains is rougher, and more fun, of course, than horsing with horses.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mountain Club to Challenge North Selkirks This Summer | 4/7/1953 | See Source »

For long stretches, Novelist Karmel offers a meticulous description of the intrigue that is almost inevitable among patients who are not acutely ill yet must stay in bed month after month. Stephania's willfulness, her almost ferocious desire to bear the agonies of a plaster cast that may reshape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Room No. 5 | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

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