Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...petty criminals who had escaped punishment by joining the Air Force. Even readers less puritanical than Lawrence may feel that he fell in with a particularly foul-mouthed crew. One pious soldier with whom he had attended church led the company the next night in singing that international smut champion. Here is the Story of the Captain's Wife, which proceeds through an unspeakable catalog of that exceptionally ill-favored lady's physical characteristics...
Most outstanding was Dick Degener, graduate of the University of Michigan in 1935, intercollegiate high diving champion for three years, and Olympic springboard diving champion, crowned in Berlin in 1936: He has since turned professional, as have all the others who are appearing with him in the aquatic show at the Arena...
Next was Marshall Wayne, Olympic high diving champion 1936, and also National champion. To add humor to their exhibitions of steel nerve. Bill Lewin, self-admittedly the world's funniest water comedian, does a few turns of his own. With Art Phillips, nine years holder of the Canadian and British Empire diving titles, he does a complicated dive that is supposed to be representative of a man riding a horse...
...include: Leonard Spence, world's fastest medley swimmer: Art Highland and Art Liudregreu, both of whom placed in the Olympics in the 100 metre free style; and Macila Kailt from Honolulu, national champion in the 100 meters and 220 yards sprints...
John J. Colony, Jr. '37, who is a free-styler, leads the team as captain; but the primary interest will lie in the members of the Junior class, paced by Charlie Hutter, national intercollegiate 100 yard free style champion and a member of Uncle Sam's Olympic team in Berlin last summer. His classmate Graham Cummin is also an intercollegiate champion, having won the backstroke in that meet in record-breaking time. Two other top free-style men from the class of '38 are Donald McCay and Donald Barker...