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What Man o' War was in racing and Big Bill Tilden in tennis, 24-year-old Chicagoan Adolph Kiefer has been in backstroke swimming. He holds every world's backstroke record, in nine years never lost a race. But as it must to most rulers, dethroning came to Kiefer last week. In the National A.A.U. swimming meet in Manhattan, Kiefer, now a Chief Specialist at the Norfolk Naval Training Station, finally lost a 150-yard backstroke race to a 6 ft. 5 in. Michigan sophomore named Harry Holiday...
Headed by William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, the roster of speakers included Overton H. Taylor, lecturer in Economics, Charles Kiefer of the Department of Agriculture studying on a Littauer Fellowship, and Edward Ames '42, president of the Harvard Liberal Union...
Pointing to a role of growing importance for bureaucracies, Kiefer indicated that a bureaucracy per se is not undesirable. "Bureaucracy is necessary to do a big job. Harvard, with a budget larger than that of many states is a bureaucracy," he said, but also went on to warn that the actions of civil servants must be controlled, nor may pressure groups be allowed to run rampant...
Only events in which mainland swimmers sparkled were the backstroke (at which Chicago's Adolph Kiefer has no peer) and the diving championships. Kiefer won the backstroke sprint crown (100 meters) for the seventh time. Ohio State's Earl Clark, national collegiate champion, won both the high and low diving titles...
...Chicago's keg-chested, kite-footed Adolph Kiefer, 23-year-old drama student, holds all five world's backstroke records. He has done 100 yards in 58.8 sec., 400 meters...