Word: starter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Topeka's big outdoor municipal pool, the starter's gun barked for the 100-meter freestyle in the National A.A.U.'s Senior Women's swimming championship. Six of the U.S.'s best women swimmers soared off the pool's edge in flat trajectory and smacked into the water. By the time they turned at the far end of the 50-meter pool, a tall, 14-year-old blonde held the lead, increased it with each powerful stroke, finished well out in front. Susan Christine ("call me Chris") von Saltza had done...
Lazy Youth. As an architect, Niemeyer was a late starter. He barely squeaked through high school, then drifted ("I just liked to draw") until he was 19. One day he dropped his shyness long enough to go right up to a pretty girl in the street and ask for a date. Recalls his wife, Ana Lisa: "I was waiting for a trolley. It was really all a surprise." The fact that his future father-in-law was a contractor gave Niemeyer the idea of entering architecture school, but he did not have the necessary credits. So, he says, "I played...
More balloons sailed skywards in the sixth inning as the home team rallied for three runs to take a 4-3 lead. After Tom Bergantino walked, captain Bob Cleary, Frank Saia, Jim Shue, and John Davis rapped out successive singles to rout Eli starter Bruce Irving...
Lefthander Gerry Emmet will probably start on the mound for the varsity. The tall sophomore gained credit for the win in the Crimson's 12-7 victory over the Bulldogs earlier this season, when he relieved starter Dave Brigham in the third inning and stayed in to pitch the rest of the game...
...race parade, which called for the competitors to ride in neat ranks three abreast behind a pace car, immediately degenerated into a fight for the pole. It took three turns around the 2½mile track before the fast-moving field straightened out enough to satisfy the official starter. Then the green flag fell and 33 big feet pushed 33 throttles to the floorboards. The restrained snarl of the parade whined into the high-powered scream of the annual Memorial Day drive toward fame or death...