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Since Russians under the Czars were starving and ignorant, Mrs. Roosevelt said, they now date everything good in Russia as something that has been done after the Revolution. "The Russians are proud that they live in the second best nation in the world," she asserted...
Coach Bob Kiphuth of Yale has again put together a superb team, undoubtedly the best in the East, but which will probably not win the NCAA championships at the end of the month. In the Eastern Intercollegiate League they are overwhelmingly powerful, having little difficulty trouncing both weak teams and strong ones like Army, Dartmouth, and they will decisively defeat the varsity this afternoon...
...Elis will open with a powerful 400-yard medley relay team of backstroker Jim Dolbey, breaststroker Joe Koletsky, butterflier Tim Jecko, and freestyler Roger Anderson. This quartet swims the distance in about 3:48. Coach Hal Ulen will counter with the best the Crimson can offer in Bill Murray, Jim Stanley, John Hammond, and Koni U1-brich. The best medley relay time the Crimson has ever done...
...many events, the Crimson has some of the second-best swimmers in the East, but unfortunately, Yale has all the best. Against Crimson star butterflier Hammond, who swims about 2:15, Yale will pit champion record-smasher Jecko, who performs...
...freestyle as against Dick Seaton's and Tom Cochran's 2:17. The 50-yard freestyle, always close, includes three Yalies who swim faster than Pete Zemo's fastest time this season. Roger Anderson has done the 100-free in the phenomenal time of 48.9 seconds. The varsity's best 100 man, Koni Ulbrich, swims it in about 53 seconds. The best the varsity can get in the backstroke is third, since the Bulldogs' best man does six seconds better than Bill Murray. In the 440-yard freestyle, Yale has a big edge and in the final relay their time...