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...questionable disqualification of Phil Jonkheer in the 200-yd. breaststroke gave Penn another win, and a Quaker sweep in the three-meter dive and the inconsequential first 400-yd. free relay completed the scoring...
...reach, head coach Don Gambril began juggling his lineup in an effort to provide the bored crowd with some close races, but to no avail. Dave Brumwell moved to the 200-yd. back and won easily, Mike Cook swam a good 500-yd. free but lost, while Phil Jonkheer and Dave Smith scored an easy 1-2 sweep in the 200-yd. breaststroke. English took another second in the 3-meter dive, and Harvard won easily in the free relay...
...monetary experts: Nether lands Bank President Marius Holtrop, 62, a first-rate banker of conservative leanings who is now president of the Bank for International Settlements, and Treasurer General Emile van Lennep, 50, who heads both Working Party III and the Common Market Monetary-Committee. Says Van Lennep, a jonkheer whose title of nobility dates from the early 19th century: "With Working Party III, a new dimension has been added to international monetary discussions. Now we discuss the problems of countries with surpluses as well as those with deficits...
...harried lifetime, Vincent Van Gogh painted some 800 pictures. Was one of them the candlelit, unfinished self-portrait in the collection of Cinemagnate William Goetz? The artist's nephew and Amsterdam Museum Director Jonkheer WJ.H.B. Sandberg thought not (TIME, June 6). On the other hand, Van Gogh Experts Jacob Bart de la Faille and Paul Gachet thought it was. To settle the matter, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, which had on display the most comprehensive Van Gogh exhibition ever seen in the U.S., picked a jury of American experts: Museum Men Alfred Barr Jr., James Plaut, George Stout...
...defense, returned to his old post at the head of British forces in India and Burma. The defense of Java, still with some Allied aid, was now where Dutchmen all along had thought it ought to be: in the hands of a Dutchman, the Indies Governor General Jonkheer Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer...