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...Bennett, who won the 50-yard freestyle in 23.5, and Phillip Graham, who took the 200-yard butterfly in 2:26.1. A team of Rusty Taylor, Porky Pitts, Graham, and Dave Abramson won the medley relay while the freestyle relay victors were Ed Seaton, Bob Dilworth, Eric Bregman, and Arvid Groswald...
...Crimson won nine of the meet's 11 events, losing only the 200-yard butterfly and the 400-yard freestyle relay. The varsity 400-yard medley relay team of John Pringle, Porky Pitts, Al Engelberg, and Arvid Groswald opened the contest by winning in the respectable time of 3:50.4. This was followed by a Crimson sweep of the 200-yard freestyle with Abramson leading Ed Seaton to the finish in a leisurely...
Elsie May Keene went around to the office of Arvid Lovgren, complained to him of pains in her throat. Naturopath Lovgren took her blood pressure, told her that her heartbeat was too fast, promptly administered a "chiropractic adjustment" with a vibrator. "But how will that stop the pains in my throat?" she asked. Lovgren gave her pills, prescribed a diet, then fitted what he called an electrical heat-ray machine around her neck. It began to burn on the left side. He said that was where the infection was, but he treated the burn with Unguentine and charged only...
Died. Carl-Gustav Arvid Rossby, 58, world-famed Swedish-born weatherman (TIME, Dec. 17), organizer (1927) of the U.S.'s first airway weather-reporting system, pioneer in modern air-mass-analysis forecasting techniques, discoverer of the "jet stream," founder of Stockholm's International Meteorological Institute; of a coronary thrombosis; in Stockholm...
...much as anyone to raise meteorology to its present high estate is a likable, high-spirited, round-faced Swede named Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby. Most leaders of modern meteorology are friends or past pupils of Dr. Rossby's. The "Rossby parameter" is important in up-to-date forecasting, and the grandest movements of the atmosphere are called the "Rossby waves." The history of modern meteorology is inescapably paralleled by Rossby's career...