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Died. Lieut. Colonel Albert William Stevens, 63, holder of the world's altitude record for manned balloons; after long illness; in Redwood City, Calif. A top-notch aerial photographer, Colonel Stevens took the first photograph showing laterally the earth's curvature (1930) and the first pictures showing the moon's shadow on the earth during a total eclipse (1932), went to 72,395 feet in a balloon on Nov. 11, 1935 (with Captain Orvil Anderson) to set a substratosphere record...
...played a violent game in foil and saber and took a slim lead over City College for first place. The Violets have 42 points while CCNY, present holder of the three-weapon title, picked...
Jack McIntyre, Dartmouth record-holder in the 100-yard freestyle, edged Joe Fox in the last lap of the 400-yard freestyle relay to give the Green a 43 to 32 victory over Hal Ulen's varsity swimmers at the Blockhouse Saturday night...
Michaels has two good reasons for making his claim--Jack McIntyre, Hanover record-holder in the 100-yard freestyle, and Frank Bruch, the Green's champion in the 200-yard breast stroke. This pair is the reason why Dartmouth is slightly favored to win tonight...
Indoor Blaze. The band was not through. Before the two-mile race, it struck up the Belgian national anthem-for balding, ruddy-faced Gaston Reiff, Olympic 5,000-meter record holder. It was a jockeying race from the start: first, Philadelphia's Curt Stone took the lead, then FBI man Fred Wilt, then Sweden's Erik Ahlden, then Reiff, then Stone, then Reiff. The Belgian, running with a choppy, high-knee action and occasionally dropping his arms to rest, fought off three challengers in the last quarter mile, finished in a blazing 8:56.1. It was the fastest...