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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...events which should be of most interest for swimming fans should be the sprints and the breastroke. The former races ought to be close with Boston's Bill Runge and Harry Koltonak in the sprints against Harvard's Lonnie Stowell, Harley Stowell, and Ned Goldwasser. Hayward, of the Y team will be up against a vastly improved Crimson breastroke delegation, with all three, Jack Waldron, Max Kraus, and Phil Walker, swimming the 200 event under 2:42 nowadays...
Happy Days. These prodigious labors (and enough more to fill dozens of close-set-columns in CCC's last annual report) were performed by young men, poor, not gilded. They had to be poor to get in the corps. In fiscal 1938, arrivals at over 1,500 CCCamps included 253,776 needy, unemployed, unmarried "junior enrollees" from 17 to 23; 17,707 war veterans unlimited by age or marital status; 9,500 Indians on Government reservations; 4,800 indigent Territorials in Alaska, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Virgin Islands...
...Biblical heroine, Edna Ferber got most of her first-hand experience during the six years she spent on Wisconsin newspapers. Since she was 23, she has lived most of the time in hotels with her mother, has kept a clocklike schedule of work-walk-read, has held aloof from close friendships with other writers. Most remarkable of all, she has imagined the backgrounds of her novels (although she says their authenticity has never been questioned). So Big, for example, she wrote in a torrid Chicago hotel room, never having seen a farm. Now living in a fabulous soundproof Park Avenue...
...hooked with his left but missed , . . in close now, he's peppering John Henry with rights and lefts . . . Joe clips John Henry with a left and right to the head, a hard right to the jaw . . . John Henry is down . . . he's up . . . now Joe is pounding John Henry's body . . . John Henry flicks a left to the body . . . Joe lands two rights to the head . . . John Henry is down again . . . he's up at the count of two . . . Joe is pounding John Henry with rights and lefts ... John Henry is down ... at the count...
Jack Waldron's close second in the 2:38 breaststroke would have been just the thing needed to keep the victory streak of the Ulen men unbroken against the Brown Bruins. And Phil Walker in third place was also under the 2:42 time which won the event for the Bruins...