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Another protégé of Coach Daughters is University of Washington's amazing Jack Medica, who, at the A. A. U. men's championships at Chicago month ago, broke the world's record for the mile in 20:57.8. smashing the records for the 350, 1,100 and 1,320-yd. distances on his way. At 19, he now holds seven world and eleven U. S. records. Son of an Italian office clerk, Swimmer Medica likes spaghetti, milk, beer. Excessively lazy, he walks as little as possible on his way to and from practice, lies dozing beside the pool until called...
...swimming team: the National Collegiate Athletic Association championship, for the fifth time in the last eight years; with 30 points to Southern California's 19, Yale's and Washington's 15; in Ohio State's $325,000 white ceramic-tiled pool; at Columbus. Jack Medica, University of Washington sophomore, won three individual championships (1500-metre, 220-yd. and 440-yd. free-style), set a new world's record...
...Coptic manuscripts, one in its original covers, dug from the edge of an oasis by Arabs searching for tillable soil. There was much more to dazzle the imagination: the purple vellum Gospels supposed to have been given to Henry VIII by Pope Leo X; the 10th Century De Materia Medica of Dioscorides; the 13th Century British Psalter with the earliest known picture of a windmill...
...thus breaking the U. S. record (21:27) held by Cinematic Buster Crabbe. At the same meet, Leonard Spence of the New York Athletic Club lowered his time for the 440-yd. breast stroke event to 6:08.8. a U. S. record. A world record fell when Jack Medica, 18, University of Washington freshman, won the 880-yd. free-style race in 10:15.4, clipping 5 sec. from another of Buster Crabbe's records. ¶Frank Parker, 17, of Milwaukee: the Bathing & Tennis Club invitation tennis tournament by beating big, good-natured Frank Shields, No. 5 U. S. player...
...Medical School began to enter into more intimate relations with biology. In the beginning its interests were almost entirely with materia medica, then with bacteriology, and finally they shifted to a full appreciation of the significance of biology for medicine. With this striking growth of the organic sciences it was not surprising that the old quarters and equipment should have become antiquated and inadequate...