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...waters. Now the conqueror of the English Channel, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Bosporus and the Dardanelles, Swimmer Chadwick, 33, announced her retirement: "This is a sport for younger people. I think I'll take up golf." ¶ For an estimated $8,000 a year, First Lieut. Arnold Galiffa. 26, onetime West Point quarterback and 1949 All-America, gave up his Army career after three years (eight months in Korea with the 3rd Division) to join the New York Giants, professional football team. ¶Statisticians wound up the baseball season with some final calculations. Milwaukee Lefthander Warren Spahn...
...Villanova and Northwestern and the mediocre team of Dartmouth. The black shirts and the gold helmets have been the same, but the eight yearlings, 24 sophomore, seven juniors, and nine seniors inside of them are not, and never have been, associated with the gridiron class of Davis, Blanchard, Galiffa, and Blaik...
...Arnold Galiffa quarterback the football team from the sidelines...
...learn the deadly lessons of combat under enemy fire. One outfit, Able Company, 7th Regiment, 3rd Division, went ashore at Wonsan last November with West Pointers leading three of its four platoons. By February, two had been killed and the lone survivor, All-America Quarterback Arnold Galiffa, had been taken out of front-line combat to become General Ridgway's aide. In another company, in the 2nd Division, one of its three West Point platoon leaders was killed, the other two wounded. Football Captain John Trent ('50) was killed three days after arriving in Korea; 1st Lieut. Samuel...
From Korea came word that West Point's 1949 All-America Quarterback Arnold Galiffa, now a lieutenant with the 3rd Division, had helped break up a Red attack by heaving 75-yard hand-grenade passes...