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Sprinter Bruce Josten gave Harvard a short lead on the first 100 yards, and Henry Watson and Bob Lawton increased it slightly so that anchorman Howie Burns had a little more than a yard advantage over Yale's outstanding Nate Cartmell...
...After Burns and Watson took second and third in the second event, the 200-free, the Crimson got a bad break in the 50-free. An important match-up between Josten and Cartmell failed to materialize when Josten jump-started twice and was disqualified. Teammate Craig Sewell rallied to prevent a Yale sweep, but Harvard trailed...
...Editor Josten is now in his second exile from his homeland. He was writing for Eduard Benes' daily Lidove Noviny when the Nazis marched into Prague, escaped to France, where he joined a Czech legion fighting the Germans; he got to England on a British destroyer a month after Dunkirk. In London he edited a small Free Czech Army daily, made BBC broadcasts, married a British girl, served in the Allied invasion of France and became a lieutenant in SHAEF's psychological warfare branch. At war's end, his good friend, the late Jan Masaryk, made...
...informants, many of them Communist officials who were secret enemies of the regime. British papers found his bulletins so reliable that the Manchester Guardian quoted them in one of its famed "leaders," the Times used them as tips for its own correspondents, and the Daily Telegraph began front-paging Josten "beats" with full credit (e.g., news of the Russian's slave-labor Czech uranium mine...
...Target. Josten's bulletin has 600 subscribers in 42 countries (rate, with full reproduction rights, is $22.40 a year) ; it brings him a modest living and enables him and his wife to employ three full-time staffers. They work by reading between the lines of Czech "official" news, monitoring Prague broadcasts, winnowing the news from their informers. In turn, the informers pass the bulletin into Czechoslovakia where each copy, read behind locked doors, passes through scores of hands. As a result, when nine Czech airmen flew a passenger-filled airliner out of Prague in a sensational escape, a girl...