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...swimmers who contributed to last year's 7-10 record (all seven wins were in out-of-league meets) have been lost through graduation and other reasons. Joe Goldenberg and Fred Storm, who each hold or share five Columbia records, have graduated along with the diving record-holder Ed Fisher. Three promising sophomores, Bob Jacobs, Fred Spin, and Charlie Wahl, decided to forsake swimming for their studies and did not go out for the team in November...
...Parry O'Brien before the meet," said Shotputter Gary Gubner, a New York University sophomore, "I might say hello-if he does. This is not a social event. It's a challenge." But World Record Holder O'Brien, his plane flight delayed by bad weather, showed up late, and Gubner had to content himself with dueling a ghost. This seemed stimulus enough for Gubner, a robust 260 lbs. at 19. He tossed the 16-lb. shot 63 ft. 10¼ in., shattered O'Brien's mark...
Lingle passed Mullin with three laps to go, withstood a brief sprint by his challenger, and finished in 4:12.6, a Cage and meet record. Mullin, holder of the old record, finished in 4:13.7, which also bettered the old mark...
Nudist. War profiteer. Absentee war correspondent. Liar. Fourflusher. Sycophant. Coat holder...
...Historian Carl Bridenbaugh. president of the American Historical Association. Yale exults in such recent California catches as Berkeley's Microbiologist Edward Adelberg and Stanford's husband-and-wife Historians (China) Arthur and Mary Wright (he got a new Yale chair; she became the first woman tenure-holder on Yale's liberal-arts faculty). On the other hand, Stanford got Yale's Historian David Potter. To replace Potter, Yale snagged Johns Hopkins' topflight Historian C. Vann Woodward, whose terms were a blue-ribbon chair and a year's leave of absence with pay before...