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...shooting and swimming-Troy, pentathlon captain-coach, appeared to have matters well in hand. His first place in fencing, second in shooting and sixth in swimming gave him a two-point lead (9-11) over Lieut. Harlan Johnson. In third place, 15 points, was a lowly Pfc. named Thad McArthur, 23. A letterman swimmer at the University of Washington (class of '50), stocky (5 ft. 9 in., 160 Ib.) McArthur, like most able-bodied youngsters, had found himself drafted into the Army soon after graduation. His natural all-around athletic ability won him no fast promotions...
...McArthur won the fourth event, the hill & dale cross-country run (some 4,000 meters) around the West Point golf course. Captain Troy, older by six years, managed to stagger in eighth (of twelve), and gave up the lead to McArthur, 16-17. The final event, horseback riding over a 4,000-meter course and 25 jumps, was one of Troy's specialties. McArthur, a fledgling rider, finished a surprising fourth. Troy never even finished. His mount, like McArthur's, was an aged, retired Army nag borrowed from Fort Riley, Kans. because the U.S. Military Academy has none...
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Grieg: Haugtussa (Kirsten Flagstad, soprano; Edwin McArthur, piano; Victor, 2 sides LP). Grieg's rustic cycle of eight songs might never be missed, but as a vehicle for Flagstad's glorious soprano they are worth hearing. Recording: good...
Most lucrative plum--the George B. Sohier Prize, worth $250 for the "best thesis by a successful candidate for honors in English or Modern Literature"--went to McArthur for his essay "Saints in Ambush." Haas was awarded the Susan Anthony Potter Prize--$75--for his essay "The Monk and Don Juan" in the field of Spanish Literature of the Golden...