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What Man o' War was in racing and Big Bill Tilden in tennis, 24-year-old Chicagoan Adolph Kiefer has been in backstroke swimming. He holds every world's backstroke record, in nine years never lost a race. But as it must to most rulers, dethroning came to Kiefer last week. In the National A.A.U. swimming meet in Manhattan, Kiefer, now a Chief Specialist at the Norfolk Naval Training Station, finally lost a 150-yard backstroke race to a 6 ft. 5 in. Michigan sophomore named Harry Holiday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mr. Smith in Manhattan | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

Kirkland House piling up a total of seven victories for an undefeated record took the interhouse volley ball championships with Adams and Leverett hot on their heels, Adolph W. Samborski, director of Intramural Athletics, announced last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEACONS TAKE VOLLEY BALL CHAMPIONSHIP | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

...what Adolph W. Samborski '25, Director of Intramural Athletics, and Coach Henry Lamar agreed was far and away the best House boxing tournament over held, 23 contestants stopped through the ropes into the ring in the boxing for the second and final day's action, Friday afternoon...

Author: By Wallace I. Green, | Title: Leverett Wins House Boxing Tournament | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

...aftermath to the House hockey and basketball season, Adolph, W. Samborski '25, Director of Intramural Athletics, has issued his annual official all-House teams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL-HOUSE BASKETBALL, HOCKEY TEAMS CHOSEN | 3/17/1943 | See Source »

Where the draft was coming from no one could guess. In 1940 many an Administration bigwig, and some citizens, demanded that the President run again. This political year had seen the President drafted only by Illinois's aged (76) Representative Adolph J. Sabath (TIME, March 1) and by West Virginia's Governor Matthew M. Neely, overwhelmingly repudiated by his State's voters in last autumn's election and since defeated in his State Legislature on every turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Term IV | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

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