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...swimming team also elected a captain yesterday, picking Robert E. Kaufmann '62, of Winthrop House and Flourstown, Pa., a recent breaker of the Harvard 200 yard medley record. Kaufmann is regarded as one of the best in the East in the freestyle, backstroke, and medley...
...doctorate with a thesis on the physics of hearing. With his trusty, ever-present sound-level meter, Knudsen tours the world, makes surprising discoveries. He once measured a noise level of 90 decibels* at a U.C.L.A. faculty tea. In the surf at Santa Monica, he registered a 3-ft. breaker at 80 decibels from a distance of 50 ft., and noted that the high-pitched, cracking noise made by shrimp often climbed to 90 decibels. He unromantically recorded a measurement of 92 decibels on the trail near the bottom of Niagara Falls...
...Dwinell-Morse combination, a big scorer last season, paid off at 7:03 with the tie-breaker. Morse, bearing down on Bishop, took the rebound from a Dwinell shot, drew Bishop off his feet, and slipped the puck over the goalie...
...Rule Breaker. But no one expected even Brosnan to write a book like The Long Season, a deft, wry account of his struggles as a pitcher last year. Traditionally, a baseball book is a sludge of cold porridge turned out by a ghostwriter for some superstar and dedicated to the notion that pro baseball is just good, clean American fun. Brosnan's book breaks all such rules. Not only did he write every word himself, but he strongly suggests that baseball players are something less than choir boys. He intimates that players like girls (and even do something about...
...Dowling is credited with popularizing the all-glass door in the 1930s, is now at work on a new kind of facing brick, a vibrationless pavement breaker, 16-power binoculars that telescope to transistor-radio size...