Word: divers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Milt. Buzby and Tom Drohan, free styler and diver, should take their events, although Buzby, who surprised all be winning against Tech, may face very tough competition indeed from the Cadet's Lamden, a Yale-trained transfer student the Point who shone in last year's meet here. In the breaststroke, an event which was taken handily against M.I.T., Captain Chuck Hoelzer leads the visitors...
...editorials "like an elephant treading the dead body of a mouse into the floor of its cage." Liebling often rags the Chicago Tribune and Bertie McCormick, but wonders if it "isn't like punching the heavy bag. The Colonel is in the direct line of Dickens' Colonel Diver of the Rowdy Journal and of Elijah Pogram, who 'Defied the world, sir-defied the world in general to compete with our country upon any hook; and devellop'd our resources for making war upon the universal airth...
...post hustling. Gordon Richards' jinx, which has kept him from winning England's greatest race in 22 attempts, was with him again. Tudor Minstrel showed briefly in front at Tattenham Corner, flattened out badly, finished fourth, out of the prize money. The winner: French-owned Pearl Diver, a 40-to-1 shot...
...Francisco, Stunt Diver Frank Gushing leaped 220 feet from the Golden Gate Bridge, was reported to be the second person to survive the jump. In the hospital with a sprained back, Gushing explained that he had been practicing for a jump he intended to make as a publicity stunt...
Though unaccustomed to Columbia's large, Grecian-styled, circular pool, which slows down swimming times, such aqua-stars as 220-man Walt Ballard, diver Bob Aaron, and Chuch Hoelzer in the breaststroke division should keep the Crimson churning out in front for most...