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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...didn't honestly think we'd be up there," an obviously pleased Penn coach George Breen said during the last day on Saturday, but he might not have been telling the whole story. The biggest reason for the Quakers' success had to be the superlative performance of senior Bob Atkinson, the only man to win three races and by a wide margin top individual the swimmer at the meet. Atkinson dropped three full seconds to take the 220-yd. individual medley in record time, repeated his fine swim in the 400-yd. version, also setting a record, and then surprised...

Author: By Charles B. Straus iii, | Title: CBS Reports | 3/13/1973 | See Source »

Penn's impending dynasty is perhaps the most quickly constructed one in history. Coach George Breen, a former Olympian, attracts the talent, works it to the bone, and convinces would-be quitters that leaving the team is analogous to mutiny...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Swimmers Face Resilient Quakers | 2/27/1971 | See Source »

When Cambridge Police Lt. Henry Breen, acting as prosecutor, asked Whitney whether he had hit Cambridge Police Capt. Joseph Cusack, Whitney replied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Whitney Gets Prison Term, Sobel Is Put on Probation | 12/4/1970 | See Source »

Donnelley's testimony was highlighted by an incident in which the prosecutor, Lt. Henry Breen, asked Donnelley whether it was not true that Donnelley had seen Breen many times before representing the Harvard Corporation and M. I. T. in cases such as the present one. Donnelley replied that he hoped Breen represented the Common-wealth of Massachusetts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Decision Yet In Whitney-Sobel Disruption Trial | 12/3/1970 | See Source »

...yearn to clip the nation's longhairs keep running into a formidable obstacle: the U.S. Constitution. Take the school officials in Williams Bay, Wis., who insist that boys with shoulder-length locks distract other students from their studies. Last year the officials ordered two hairy boys, Thomas Breen, 17, and James Anton, 19, to get , haircuts or get expelled. Spurning both choices, the shaggy ones asked a federal district court to declare the order unconstitutional. When the court obliged, the would-be clippers continued their fight right up to the Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Hairy Victory | 6/15/1970 | See Source »

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