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...squad is in much better shape than Ulen predicted two weeks ago. Bill Graham has strengthened the breast-stroke division and will swim the middle lap of the 300-yard medley relay. Dick Wheeler and Rone Vietman should go in the 200-yard race...
Points are scored every time a player on one team laps a member of the opposing team. A "jam" is an effort to score a point and occurs when one of the faster men on a team is shaken loose, usually on a crack-the-whip maneuver, and tries to steal a lap on the opposition. He is given two minutes to do this and the number of points he gets depends on how many of the opposition he passes. In the meantime, the skaters on the team that has a jammer out try to slow down the members...
...Army supplied only a plain blanket for the presidential lap (instead of the electric blanket furnished by the Navy last year), and the electric foot warmer did not work. But Harry Truman cheerfully hammed a few appropriate poses for photographers, oohed and aahed like any common citizen at the power of Army's football team (see SPORT). "I enjoyed it but it was a little one-sided," commented old artilleryman Truman before he left for home...
...most of whose commissioners are not electronic experts, will hold many more hearings, stage more demonstrations. The commission may dump the problem of color TV into the lap of some such scientific body as the National Bureau of Standards. While the decision waits, laymen can draw a few conclusions for themselves...
...most of British history, Englishmen have been able to take zither music-or leave it to the Tyrolese. Last week, nonetheless, the humble, lap-sized stringed instrument was the musical rage of London. Recording sales were rivaling such alltime British favorites as Gracie Fields and Vera Lynn...