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Although the Indians will compete without the services of last year's stars, Wayne Shrodes, Irving Stein, and Julian Armstrong, the team has been greatly reinforced by last year's Freshmen, backstroker Jim O'Mara, sprinters Bill Stegner, Kelley Wehnes, and George Liskow, and breastroker Jud Mulally. Old standbys Art Ostrander in the middle distances and Captain Paul Dyer in the dive are also expected to earn points for the Green...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: Encounter With Dartmouth Tomorrow Presents First Big Obstacle for Mermen | 1/12/1940 | See Source »

Coming up to the Varsity from the Freshman swimming team of 1939 will be several competitors who may make Dartmouth a little tougher this year. Rollo Wilhelmy and Jack Storrs, in the middle distances; Jim O'Mara, holder of the college's Freshman back stroke record; George Liskow and Bill Stegner in the sprints; and Bob Carney in the dive, look exceptionally promising...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Key Men Loss on Court and Ice Leaves Dartmouth Shaky | 1/9/1940 | See Source »

...Christowe's autobiography, this unexplored coincidence still held good. Son of a Bulgarian village sage, stocky, fierce-looking, congenial Author Christowe, now 40, is known as a contributor to the defunct, highbrow Dial, author of two well-received books, Heroes and Assassirts, an account of Macedonian terrorists, and Mara, a novel. Least pretentious of immigrant autobiographies, and one of the best-written, This Is My Country is a simple chronicle that contrasts particularly with the excitable, brooding record of Louis Adamic's Americanization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Refreshing Immigrant | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

...once a time when the football week-end tapeed with tomato juice. Sunday morning quarterbacks and the spotpages. Now professional football prolongs the week-end Sunday afternoon. With the subway trade, it really begins For this, Dr. Harry W. March of New York is responsible. parsuaded Timothy J. Mara to finance the first big-league pro football team--the Giants of New York. That...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Schools Played Him | 10/8/1937 | See Source »

...looks a great deal like a football himself, has been turning his every horse hunch to gold. The first day he appeared at Saratoga he won the astounding sum of $108,000. On another day he won $50,000 and on the closing day $15,000. Admiring Bookmaker Tim Mara told how Bettor Rooney had been talking football to a friend at the Saratoga rail when the news was brought to him that the horse on whom he had bet $12,000, had won but had been disqualified. Rooney went on talking football. On another occasion he nipped a coin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Lucky Rooney | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

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