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...fitness buff ever since his days as an all-round athlete at San Francisco's Lowell High ('23). So when it came to promoting Teen-Age Fitness, Brown allowed that he'd be glad to lend a hand-two, in fact. Inspired by Connecticut's Gymnast Muriel Grossfeld, 24, a comely, three-time U.S. Olympic team member who's touring the country in the cause of trimmer teenagers, Brown flopped on the light grey carpet in his Sacramento executive suite for an exhibition of gubernatorial pushups. He got up-and down-to four, took...
Horse & Rings. Like most top vaulters of the fiber glass era, Hansen is a jumper-gymnast. He works out as much as four hours a day-on the trampoline, the long horse and the flying rings, lifts weights, does isometric exercises. He has even dieted down from 175 Ibs. to 167 Ibs. on the sensible theory that the lighter he is, the less work he has to do to get himself up where he wants to go. At night he watches home movies of his rivals in action, says proudly that "they probably have movies...
...Some Harvard gymnasts had been doing stunts," said Sophomore Eaton Brooks of the University of North Carolina, nervously fingering his smartly striped tie. "The gentleman from Harvard who was on the other gentleman's shoulders was swinging the chandelier back and forth. I was up on the mantelpiece, watching people crawl on the rafters. One of the other boys up there swung to the floor on the chandelier, and about ten minutes later I guess I wanted to be a gymnast, too." That was when the chandelier collapsed and dumped Tarzan Brooks on the floor...
Sophomore Howie Durfee, outpointed only 4-2 by his 137-pound foe, was the Crimson grappler closest to victory, but suffered his second loss of the season in the effort. Ben Brooks, an 11-7 loser to Gymnast John Carrs at 177 pounds, was the second most successful of the Harvard matmen...
...with his hand to be sure the scarf is in place. In summer, he spends as much time as possible in swimming so the mouse will be invisible under water. Struggling in other ways against the teasing derision of his clannishly normal classmates, he makes himself the best gymnast in the school, as well as the best swimmer, diver and the best student. The war is on. Mahlke resolves to win the Iron Cross, Germany's highest military honor. But no matter what he does he remains an outcast-sometimes inspiring awe, but never inspiring acceptance...