Word: breast
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...Australia's (and Michigan's) Jerry Davies, who upset Princeton's Bob Brawner, defending champion and 200-yd. world record holder, in the 220-yd. breast stroke. CJ Hawaii's (and Ohio State's) Dick Cleveland, holder of the unofficial world record for the 100-yd. free-style (0:49.6), who took the A.A.U. event in 0:50. ¶Ohio State's Jack Taylor, who edged out Yale's Olympic winner, Allen Stack, in the 100-yd. backstroke by a wrist flip. ¶The N.H.S.C. 400-yd. free-style relay quartet (Dick Thoman...
...What he meant was plain last week at a "self-accusation" meeting of students and teachers of Peking's famed Yenching University (TIME, Feb. 26). Professor after professor and pupil after pupil stood up to confess the blackest sin in Communism's book: pro-Americanism. Among the breast-beaters...
Mary Gwendolyn Brigham '53 of Montclair, New Jersey and Moors Hall, was elected captain of the Radcliffe swimming team this week. Miss Brigham placed first in two events Wednesday in the Radcliffe-Pembroke swimming meet: the 25-yard breast stroke and the freestyle for form...
Meanwhile, the freshman breast- and backstrokes have fared well in the Eastern Intercollegiates. And a Yale graduate living in Boston, is giving a year at Exeter to Kerry Donovan, already the second best sprinter in the world...
Three-meter diving will take up Saturday morning, with the finals that night. Trials will take place in the afternoon in the 100-yard backstroke and breast stroke, 100 and 440-yard freestyle, the 150-yard individual medley and 300-yard medley relay. The finals in these events begin...