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About fifty men were present at a preliminary meeting for candidates for the swimming squad held in the Indoor Athletic Building. Both Varsity and Freshman coaches addressed the meeting and devoted most of their time to an explanation of the Japanese crawl upon which they intend to concentrate for the coming season...
...night last week at Chicago's Century of Progress colored searchlights fingered an airplane circling high overhead. Presently the crowds below saw a figure dressed as Uncle Sam crawl out on its wing, drop off. Down shot Uncle Sam, the massed lights following him as their operators waited for a parachute to billow over his head. No 'chute billowed. Faster & faster fell Uncle Sam until the beams caught a silvery splash on the surface of Lake Michigan. Then they quickly swung away. Muttered the crowd: "A dummy, of course...
...first day of the meet, Lenore Kight-who lost by a handbreadth to Helene Madison in the Olympic 400 meters -won two events. Using a free-style (crawl) stroke with even more arm-pull than Miss Madison's, she finished the 100-meter final in 1:10.8, with Olive Hatch Voight second by two feet. In the mile she had an easier time and beat Susan Robertson by 30 yd. When Helene Madison retired last year she held 16 out of the 17 of the world's free-style records up to a mile and it looked...
...trick the other. You will then be utterly mystified when the great La Tour is found stabbed to death; when a young man in a raccoon coat turns up under a collapsible couch; when two deformed characters, one of them only able to speak with his fingers, crawl through a window and try to drag off La Tour's corpse, which falls into a subterranean chamber full of canvas ghosts; and when a police sergeant solves the not particularly pressing problem of who killed La Tour, by permitting Azrah to hold a spurious seance. All this will build...
From this the investigators conclude that the air in a burning room is best at three or four feet from the floor for one or two minutes, that in speeding to safety it is wiser to stoop than to crawl...