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...Crimson will be weaker in the freestyle than was expected, as Perry Stearn, free-styler on last year's team, has pneumonia. However, Oliver P. Morton, also a veteran, will be on hand for the meet, as will Harvey Pastel, diver, and Gilbert King, Jr., breast-stroker. In addition, 20 new men have turned out who will go to Tech...
Veterans from last year on the team are Oliver P. Morton, free style swimmer; Harvey Pastel, diver; Perry Stearn, free-styler; and Gilbert King, Jr., breaststroker. In addition, 20 new men have turned out who will...
...Evening Post: "A shining silver rectangle of metal sailed past over our right wing. I recognized it as a main-exit door. Seconds later, a black lump came hurtling through the formation, barely missing several propellers. It was a man, clasping his knees to his head, revolving like a diver in a triple somersault, shooting by us so close that I saw a piece of paper blow out of his leather jacket. He was evidently making a delayed jump. . . . A B-17 turned gradually out of the formation to the right, maintaining altitude. In a split second it completely vanished...
...hard for "Cap"' Tooker. who had superintended the long preparations and who now shared with the Navy's Captain B. E. Manseau the responsibility of the raising, to decide which was worse: the dirty work of getting ready, or the strain of the final stage. A diver himself, he knew the obstacles overcome, the risks yet faced. But for Tooker, and for the hundreds of men who had worked on, in, and under the prostrate ship, her first, slight lift of life was a triumph of patience and courage...
Eleanor Roosevelt, who had lately christened a barge at Port Angeles, Wash., got a phone call after she arrived in Seattle : a diver had gone to the bottom of the harbor, brought up the handbag she had dropped (with her plane ticket, money and eyeglasses...