Word: bum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are naturally weak links in Jordan's present team--they come at 155 and 165, where Butch has been troubled with injuries. Bum knees have forced Roger Wach and Tom Connors into noncombatant roles; the posts will probably be filled by two men chosen from among Charlie Keith, a capable 165er, Andre Sigourney, Neil Hastie, and Dick Edelman. Sigourney is good but not in shape, Hastie and Edelman are sophomores...
Charlie was graduated in 1936 from Boston English High School, where he had swum in his junior and senior years, and proceeded to "bum around," as he puts it, until he enlisted in the Navy in 1938. He served in the Pacific, mostly on the battleship West Virginia, and won the Pacific Fleet 220 and 440-yard free "Only five people have ever made good money out of swimming," he declares. style titles...