Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alabama's hulking Governor "Big Jim" Folsom hulked into Manhattan to be installed as "No. 1 Leap Year Bachelor" by the publicity-conscious Barbizon Studio of Fashion Modeling. In the course of a much-photographed kissing tour of the city, he managed to stop traffic on Fifth Avenue.* He also delivered himself of an opinion on the Marshall Plan which disclosed that he had not altogether forgotten the paternity suit against him (TIME, March 15): "When it comes a-weanin' time [those European countries] are gonna squeal. You ever weaned a baby, honey? No? You try it, honey...
...yard backstroke: Won by Stack (Yale); second, Ratkiewick (Yalt); third, Wineman (Williams); fourth, Lechner (Navy); fifth, Merrow (Bowdoin); sixth, Whitton (Springfield). Winning time--1:32. (new EISL record...
...yard freestyle: Won by Girdes (Yale); second, DeForrest (Penn); third, Parker (Yale); fourth, Moore (Yale); fifth, Baldwin (Williams); sixth, Hassett (Yale). Winning time...
...meter dive: Won by Heston (Yale); second, Flynn (Rutgers); third, Fergeson (Yale); fourth, Drohan (Harvard); fifth, Sevella (Springfield); sixth, Campbell (Springfield). Winner's points...
...yard medley relay: Won by LaSalle (Shaw, Verdeur, Lumsdun); second, Yale; third, Dartmouth; fourth, Army; fifth, Bowdoin. Winning time...