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...yard breaststroke: Won by Verdeur (LaSalle); second, Schmidt (Temple); third, DeForrest (Penn.); fourth, Urstadt (Dartmouth); fifth, Brier (Brown); sixth, D'Arcy (Temple). Winning time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Mermen Win Intercollegiates As Verdeur Smashes Two Records | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...yard freestyle: Won by Girdes (Yale); second, DeForrest (Penn); third, Parker (Yale); fourth, Moore (Yale); fifth, Baldwin (Williams); sixth, Hassett (Yale). Winning time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eli Swimmers Dominate First Day Of EISL Competition at Blockhouse | 3/20/1948 | See Source »

Allen Stack, Yale backstroker who set a new intercollegiate record last weekend, will be the co-star of the show along with Verdeur, while Don DeForrest, all-around ace from Penn in three events this winter, should furnish real competition for the topnotchers...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: Top Eastern Swimmers Compete in Pool Today | 3/19/1948 | See Source »

...DeForrest showed the strength that has earned him the rating of second best breaststroke in the country by butterflying to a 2:29.5 victory. Bud Ward and Don Ulen followed for the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimmers Stop Penn, 50-25 For Ninth Straight Victory | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...forced to listen to radio programs wherever he wandered. For to even the casual ear--provided its owner is someone halfway bright--present-day American radio is an unrealized and lackluster medium. "It is a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere," says radio pioneer Lee DeForrest, and columnist Robert C. Ruark contributes these adjectives: "Corny, strident, boresome, florid, repetitive, offensive, moronic, and nauseating." Occasionally big radio wheels like Mr. Stanton or Mr. Paley rise and plunge the dagger in their bressiz by decrying their own low standards. And groups like the FCC and Listeners' Councils...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 4/15/1947 | See Source »

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