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...gangster chief called "God"? Well, that's it. End of joke. It's called Skidoo, and the only conceivable reasons to see it are 1) to hear each and every credit, from cameraman to copyright date, sung on the sound track; 2) to see actors like Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Burgess Meredith, Peter Lawford and even Groucho Marx make fools of themselves; and 3) just to believe that it exists. Ostensibly a comedy, Skidoo was produced and directed by Otto Preminger, who has also unleashed on an unwary public such tid-bits as Hurry Sundown and In Harm...
Today's meet in Philadelphia should be a good warmup, if nothing else. Despite its lack of success, Pann has a few excellent swimmers. Dave Gleason, Steve Kowal, and Les Frisch and the three best competitors, and are probably the only Quakers with a reasonable chance to earn firsts...
...Gleason is a sophomore who is now swimming well after an early-season illness. His best times in the 500-yard and 1000-yard freestyles are only slightly slower than those of Harvard's Steve Krause, who has yet to lose this year...
Frisch excels in the breastroke, but would be a slight underdog if Steve Baumgart enters for Harvard. Frisch also swims the backstroke with success. Other strong individuals for Penn are Bill Porterfield in the sprints, Peter Radmayne in the butterfly, and Bruce Morrow in the long freestyles behind Gleason...
Andrew M. Gleason, profesor of Mathematics and a member of the Fainsod Commitee, and Kenneth M. Kaufman '69, former about the committee. The forum will then consider aspects of student-faculty and student-administration relations...