Word: relays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East his sophomore year. Against Yale last March as a junior, the rangy Jorgensen broke his own Crimson record in the 220, set one in the 440 (which he was swimming for the first time), and despite the gruelling length of this event, came back in the immediately following relay with an amazing 53-second leg for the final 100 yards...
While Ulen has also lost Jack Edwards, a 50-second 100 man, Crimson sprinting may not feel the loss too severely. Three juniors--Chouteau Dyer, Jon Lind, and Pete Macky--formed three quarters of a free style relay team that placed fourth in the country at the N.C.A.A. meet last spring...
...range is not long enough to carry TV programs across the Atlantic in one hop, but relay stations using Greenland and Iceland as stepping stones can do the trick. Other continents could be reached in the same way without too much difficulty. TV Pioneer Allen B. Du Mont stated at the conference that there is now no electronic reason why nearly all the world should not watch the same TV program at the same time...
Finally, Yale had its day. There's a new event in swimming this year. Instead of the three-stroke medley relay, they have a four-stroke one, with both the butterfly and breast strokes. So Yale set the record in it. It wasn't a fluke. Yale is good. But the event is so new that almost any team could swim it and set a record. Even before Esther Williams got the times from the judges, she said. "The old record was ..." The whole Yale team applauded. But Miss Williams misread the times...
...satisfied simply with winning the Canadian 400-yd. medley relay championship, the Walter Reed Hospital Swim Club team (TIME, Apr. 18) set a world record besides. Splashing in perfect form through the University of McGill pool in Montreal, Mary Jane Sears, 15, Wanda Werner, 14, Shelley Mann, 17, and Susan "Dougie" Gray, 15, covered the distance in 4:30.5, nearly two seconds faster than the old record they had set themselves...