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...Freshman Tom Wolf joins junior Paul Scott in a stronger backstroke department, but a surrent of top-notch backstroke talent in the lengue leaves the event a question mark. With record-holder Dave Brumwell returning in the breast stroke, the Crimson will be very strong, and the prospects are brighter in the butterfly as well with the performance of freshman John Craig a mild surprise...

Author: By Charles B. Straus, | Title: Prospects Are Uncertain For Mermen | 12/8/1972 | See Source »

...sicker when young, the brighter when grown? It seems an unlikely proposition, but Psychologist Robert Helmreich of the University of Texas at Austin and Psychiatrist William Prescott of the U.S. Public Health Service in San Juan, P.R., argue that it is true. The Teddy Roosevelt effect, Helmreich calls it, after the President who emerged from a sickly childhood into an adulthood of endeavor and accomplishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Achievement and Illness | 12/4/1972 | See Source »

...outlook is much brighter this year. "We have to reorganize a whole new team," head coach Bill McCurdy said yesterday, "but I'm very optimistic about the possibilities for putting together a very strong squad...

Author: By E.j. Dionne, | Title: Improved Thinclads Look Toward Better Record | 12/1/1972 | See Source »

...meeting was being held at all, Pompidou justified it on the "negative" basis that "not to hold it would be an act with grave consequences." He added, with scarcely more enthusiasm, "I hope that when we are all around the table, a European flame will glow a little brighter, and France will not seek to extinguish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMON MARKET: The Summit: Details in Place of Dreams | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

...laws, instead of cutting into the wedding cake, cut into each other. Surprisingly, the formula works, and Bridget Loves Bernie, whose ethnic humor descends from Abie's Irish Rose (the long-running comedy of the '20s) down through All in the Family, is one of the brighter comedy spots of the new season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Viewpoints | 10/9/1972 | See Source »

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