Word: enthusiasts
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Plainly, I am not "a sports enthusiast." And it is fortunate that Harvard affords sanctuary for that small band, including myself, which does not shriek, moan, gibber, or drool at the actions of local athletes. (I would like to make it plain that my group is not "intellectual," and that its scholastic average is only slightly above the average. My friends and I enjoy moving-pictures, ice-cream, comic-strips, and in most other respects are Typically American...
...wouldn't think a bad of sailing enthusiast that must pay all its expenses out of its own pocket and boasts no racing boat of its own would be one of the best college yachting teams in the country; but that's the story of Harvard's little heralded sailing team...
Occasionally a sports event satisfies and soothes every whim and pore of the true sports enthusiast. Tonight's varsity swimming meet at Princeton--an unpredictable battle between two equally dangerous teams should gratify even the most dichard of the sports purists. In a word, it promises to be close...
...enthusiast, the Associated Press reports "excellent" conditions at Camden and Rangoloy, Maine, and good skiing all around New Hampshire and the Berkshires...
Died. Sir Malcolm Campbell, 63, internationally known speed king; of a cardiac condition and stroke; in Reigate, England. A racing enthusiast from boyhood, Sir Malcolm (King George V knighted him in 1931) tried bicycles, motorcycles and airplanes before turning to automobiles in 1910. Driving his famed "Bluebird" over the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah in 1935, he was the first to crack the five-mile-a-minute mark (he hit 301.1292 m.p.h.*); he switched to speedboats, and four years later, on Lake. Coniston, England, established a record 141.74 m.p.h., which has never been equaled...