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And no one can deny that Varsity swimming workouts are thought. After two months of ache-producing exercises, the Ulenmen enter, the pool officially, and from 3 o'clock to 4:30 daily, exclusive of morning workouts, the boys wave their arms at the bottom of the bath. A typical...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/9/1939 | See Source »

A short rest, and you may be advised to "take 20, easy," which means over a quarter-mile at blotter than hair-speed. Then, gracious Mr. Ulen, in his most condescending manner, will "permit" you to swim ton laps with your feet strapped-- to build up the arms. The first...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/9/1939 | See Source »

Unable to get in the actors' front door, I. A. T. S. E.'s President George Browne two months ago found a back door open. On charges of mismanagement, A. A. A. A. tried Executive Secretary Ralph Whitehead of its subsidiary union, the American Federation of Actors (vaudeville and variety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Alphabet Crisis | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

"There is one thing our peoples-yours and mine-have in common: freedom is the air we breathe, freedom is in our blood and bones: the independence of the human spirit. But we are so used to it that if we ever think of it at all, we think it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Russell's Congress | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

There is no obligation on the King or Queen to take any journalists on their laps or invite them to pull up chairs and shoot olive pits with them."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Royal Press | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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