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...least four events-the butterfly, the backstroke, the 440-yard freestyle, and the breaststroke-Cornell provides strong competition for some of the events which have so far been among the varsity's strongest. Big Red freestyler John Waterfall and backstrokers Bob Coifman and Gerrit White have made particularly good showings in other meets this season. Comparative scores of the Navy meets for the respective teams indicate a very close meet at the I.A.B. for the second straight Saturday night...
Died. Dr. Gerrit J. Van Heuven Goedhart, 55, tall, intense U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees since 1950, whose office won the 1954 Nobel Peace Prize for its thankless task of finding "permanent solutions" to the plight of some 350,000 anti-Communist refugees in Europe and Asia; of a heart attack while playing tennis; in Geneva, Switzerland. Prewar editor (1929-33) of the big Amsterdam Telegraaf, bald, brilliant Dr. Goedhart became a top-ranking resistance leader, later (1944) moved to London as Minister of Justice in the Dutch government in exile. Lately embittered by apparent indifference to the plight...
Handy Reference. In Milwaukee, police wondered how burglars had stolen $1,200 from the Sailor Ann's tavern's locked, undamaged safe until Owner Gerrit Stell admitted that, since he could never remember the combination, he had scribbled it on a calendar over the safe...
...times he came close to being nonplused. One of three Alaskan delegates- a small, weatherbeaten man named Gerrit Snider-strode up to him, clutching a bundle wrapped in newspapers. "Would you appoint a native Alaskan, a real sourdough governor of Alaska?" the visitor demanded. Startled, Ike paused a moment, and then said yes. Snider immediately unwrapped the parcel and yanked out a two-skin sable choker...
...Selfish sister Ellen, 22, paid no heed, hummed tralala, wrinkled her "grotesque and powerful" nose, turned to give a gracious welcome to Homer Henshaw, a Harvard man. There was nothing left for Chloe" to do but to walk in the family garden. Almost before she knew it, handsome Gerrit Van Fleet was "grinding his blonde mustache into her lips...