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...body all at once caught up with his mind. "It was wonderful," he says. "One day I was a scrawny little thing that everybody could beat up, and the next time I looked around I was the biggest boy in the class. I could run faster, jump higher, dive better than almost any body, and all the girls wanted to feel my muscles." His sense of relief was so terrific that it became a kind of constitutional euphoria, a lifelong fizz of high spirits...
...Medley Relay: Harvard Time: 4:00.0 220 Yd. Freestyle: Dyer (H), Seaton (H), Ceres (N) Time: 2:12.1; 50 Yd. Freestyle: Clifton (H), Lind (H), Beron (N) Time: 23.9; 200 Yd. Butterfly: Stanley (H), Neville (N), Jaffe (H) Time: 2:36.2; Dive: Stone (H), Murner (H), Pheris (N) Points 67.85; 100 Yd. Freestyle: Dyer (H), Lind (H), Peltier (N) Time: 51.0; 440 Yd. Freestyle: Seaton (H), Martin (N), Gentz (N) Time: 5:03.7; 200 Yd. Breaststroke: Stanley (H), Falk (H), Friederich (N) Time 2:31.8; 400 Yd. Freestyle Relay: Navy Time...
...Died. James Leslie (Jim) Marshall, 65, onetime Collier's Far East correspondent, who got a resounding newsbeat (and a crippled arm, damaged vocal cords) in 1937 when he mooched a ride on the U.S. Navy gunboat Panay just before Japanese dive bombers sank it in the Yangtze River; of a heart attack; in Palo Alto, Calif...
...Game Preserve. In Cleveland, cops surprised 40 men playing cards in an 8-by-10 ft. room, bagged two packs of cards and the 17 gamblers who couldn't squeeze past the door or dive through the window, later released their catch on insufficient evidence after they examined the cards, discovered they were printed in Spanish, decided it would be impossible to explain the game to the judge...
Greg Stone put on one of his finest exhibitions of the year in the dive, nearly upsetting Army's defending Eastern Intercollegiate Champion Frank Knight. Going into the last dive, Stone held a slim lead, but Knight pulled out the victory on his last dive, winning 79.5 to Stone...