Word: relayers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indication of the quality of the entrants in this meet was the distance medley relay, in which the varsity finished fifth. Winner Villanova ran Charlie Jenkins, Warner Heitman, Alex Breckenridge, and Ron Delany, four of the finest runners in the country during the past indoor season...
Izett Was a Scot. To help get the research done for her weekly deadlines, Mary Ellis Peltz relies on an ever-changing relay of would-be writers, young students who serve their operatic apprenticeship with her the way others serve in claques or work as spear bearers, then go on to a semester or two in Europe. For publishable articles they get $15 to $25. In order to thin the ranks of contributors. Editor Peltz subjects them to quick research jobs on what she anachronistically calls "$64 questions." Samples: ¶ Was Gaetano Donizetti (Lucia di Lammermoor) a Scotsman? For years...
...relay team turned in its best performance of the year to set a Harvard record of 3:25.4 and finish third behind Yale (3:23.1) and Ohio State (3:24.5). A 49.9 final leg by Ohio State's Al Wiggins just managed to nip the Crimson for second place...
Much of the varsity's hope lies in the 400 freestyle relay team consisting of Dyer, Pete Macky, Jon Lind, and Jorgensen. This team took the Easterns in 3:26.1, and, on paper at least, is the second fastest team in the country--Yale being the fastest, of course. Ohio State has done a 3:26.9 using medley star Al Wiggins as Anchor man, but since Wiggins is expected to swim in other events, the Buckeyes may drop back. Iowa State has done 3:24 in a 20-yard pool, but over the 25 yard length this would be equivalent...
...medley relay team of Macky, Hawkins, and Jorgensen faces stiffer competition. Ohio State had done 2:46, Yale 2:47, North Carolina State 2:48, Northwestern 2:50, and Iowa State 2:52. The Crimson record to date is 2:52.4, but recent improvement by Pete Macky in the backstroke indicates that the varsity may get down...