Word: merritts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Princeton's best freshman swimming squad in memory has piled up a record of nine wins and no losses this year, but Coach Benn Merritt's Crimson freshman will give them their hardest test. Bill Shrout should find competition enough for at least one record, though the team will be hurt by the loss of sprinter Phil Chase with an injured foot...
...with his right arm paralyzed, Charles Sheeler is nearly beyond accolades. Like blueprints of a new aesthetic, his precision paintings were the reductio ad minutam of the machine age. He mixed the academicism of his teacher, William Merritt Chase, with the cubist masters, made a living as a photographer until his immaculate industrial visions caught on. He could refine the reality of a locomotive's monstrous driving wheels so that even when they are frozen in two dimensions, their tremendous momentum leaps...
...Americans were also a matter of astronomy, although Mark Tobey's star seemed dwindling. Three Tobeys went for a total of $34,000, or $8,500 below top estimates. But Willem de Kooning's flowing landscape, Merritt Parkway (TIME, May 18, 1959), garnered his top auction price, an even $40,000. And for the first time a Robert Rauschenberg was put up for bids. A 1959 "combine" (it includes a tie and a zipper) called Summer Storm popped right through the ceiling, to $13,000, or nearly twice the estimated price...
Following Captain Bill Shrout's record-breaking example, Coach Benn Merritt's freshmen came from behind in the final freestyle relay to upset highly-favored Dartmouth 50-45. Shrout anchored the relay in a cool 47.4 seconds, the fastest 100-yard split ever done by a Harvard swimmer...
...Merritt, however, doesn't even want to speculate that far in advance. The squad's next opponent is Williston, a prep school power. Merritt describes the team's chances as "50-50 right now. This will be decided on our second and third places," he added. And Shrout? Merritt predicted, "I very definitely expect him to break some more records...