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Yale's Steve Clark set pool, Eastern, and NCAA records in the 200-yard freestyle race, winning with a time of 1:46.2. Equally impressive, though, were the other Ell swimmers. Toby Mussman, Dave Lyons, and Ed Townsend, who took second, third, and fifth in times of 1:47.0, 1:48.0 and 1:49.4 respectively. Since the winning time in the Big Ten Conference meet last week was 1:48.2 by an Indians swimmer ineligible for the NCAAs. Yale may be able to look for a sweep of the event in the nationals later this month...
...despite an unusually good defense performance, the Ell varsity was rather outclassed in the 79th gridiron meeting of "the ancient and honorable" rivals. The Crimson had 234 rushing yards as opposed to Yale's 85, and seven more first downs...
...Yalies were John K. Powell, assistant dean and chief security officer Yale, and the New Haven sixth district court judge, a member of Ell's class of 1941. Powell told the judge that the raid was carried out almost completely on Yale property, and that he considered the arrests unfortunate and unnecessary. He added that the inconvenience already suffered by the seven students was sufficient punishment...
...well in English. There is a party at the castle of Sir Magnus Donners, "the great industrialist," who is widely suspected of odd but harmless sexual deviations and is easily persuaded to photograph a charade in which his guests represent the seven deadly sins. Kenneth Widmerpool, whom Pow'ell addicts have already enshrined as one of the great ones in the long waxwork gallery of English comics, appears as an ambitious officer with a rich, newly acquired military vocabulary. In his own phrase he is "up to his arse in bumph" (i.e., a busy desk officer). An unconscious clown...
...refused to take shelter, was pulled out of the wreckage, but her precious stocks of champagne were gravely depleted. "Don't ever die," the Duchess of Jermyn Street told a friend when she recovered. "I've just been right up to the gates of heaven and 'ell, and they're both bloody." The fabled food and demented dialogue were never the same after Rosa finally made it through the gates at the age of 85, going on 90. But little else changed. Not long ago, Successor Jeffrey coldly advised an American tourist to try "a nice...