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...league race with four wins and two losses, will not only enter the 100-yard sprint and fight it out with Johnson and Captain Sanburn of Yale in the 220 but is also scheduled to swim anchor man in the 400-yard relay. His best race is the furlong in which he is undefeated this season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grapplers, Swimmers to Compete In Intercollegiates Over Weekend | 3/14/1941 | See Source »

...furlong, plucky Francis Powers, captain and leading scorer of the Crimson will be up against two of a trio of the country's speediest middle distance men, Captain Sanburn, Howie Johnson and Rene Chouteau. Powers is undefeated in this event so far this year and his best time, 2:15.4, is only a shade over Sanburn's fastest clocking...

Author: By David B. Stearns, | Title: Kiphuth's Caravan of Swim Stars Cavort Against Crimson Tonight | 3/11/1941 | See Source »

...unordered Army planes). The Navy's chief shipbuilder, Rear Admiral Samuel M. Robinson, testified that, despite difficulties, "we have been able to go ahead with our shipbuilding program . . . we are not being held up." He was contradicted next day by Rear Admiral William Rea Furlong, who told the same Senate sub-committee that the shipbuilding program had been seriously held up ("progress has stopped on the procurement of materials that go into the ships"). Two of his examples: U. S. Steel Corp. had postponed construction of a $4,000,000 mill to make Navy steel; subcontractors refused to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Dead Centre | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

...Senate by the ears with a resolution providing what many a temperate critic has long demanded, what many another within the services has secretly advocated: a full, impartial investigation of U. S. defense needs, method, purpose. Congressmen sensitive to clamor from home had up a batch of admirals (Robinson, Furlong, Van Keuren), gave the wallowing sea dogs hell. So hot was the attack that Minnesota's Melvin Maas was at last moved to say: "When peace times are here we jump all over you and accuse you of just wanting . . . a lot of nice battleships to ride around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Billions for Defense | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

Cutler took two second places against Yale, meeting defeat for the first time this season in the 220 or 440. He was beaten in the furlong by Howard Johnson and in the quarter by Rene Chouteau. His season's record, therefore, is 10 first places and 3 seconds, one of these gained in the 100-yard free style...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Swimmers Gain League Title as Cutler Tops Individual Stars | 3/16/1940 | See Source »

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