Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...competition pushes him hard enough, he may better this records in the Amateur Athletic Union meet next weekend. He trailed behind Michigan's John Dudeck until halfway through the last lap of the 100, edging him out at the end of the race...
...free style lap was very close, but in the last ten yards Jorgensen pulled ahead of Yale and Stanford for a third in the event, fourth place in the meet, and a new Crimson record of 2:53.1. Jorgensen's time...
...yard medley relay, the varsity's Don Mulvey, Hawkins, and Jim Jorgensen were 2.6 seconds slow of Yale's winning 2:52. Mulvey fell two yards behind the Ell's Sandy Gidoonse when he bumped his head on a bad turn in his final lap, but Hawkins made it up against Dennis O'Conner and converted it into a two-foot lead. Jorgensen, swimming with a heavy cold, fever, and lots of guts, then kept up with Kerry Donovan for the first 50 yards, but he couldn't hold on. Donovan must have covered the last lap in 50 seconds...
...keep him from sleeping nine hours a night, and he is hard at work every morning at 8 o'clock. In his spare time he stares at motion pictures, often "stopping them and backing them up" to engage in rapt inspection of every last optical effect and lap dissolve. In five years, he has read only one book (The Caine Mutiny), but few films, good, bad or indifferent, have escaped his coldly appraising...
...Women Fight. It was also ladies' day in the 15-kilometer relay race, and produced something close to a diplomatic incident. On the first lap when Finland's Sirkka Polkunen tried to pass Russia's Lubov Kosyreva, the Russian girl stuck out her ski pole to keep the Finn from passing, and the girls scuffled for a moment...