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Willim J. Brooks was a sophomore at Rider College in Trenton, N.J., in 1929 and what he terms "just an A.A.U. swimmer," when the 600-student school was persuaded to start a swimming team. Brooks turned professional and became its first coach...
Almost as if to prove his versatility, Brooks showed he was as good or better a producer of swimmers. Of the five major U.S. swimming awards, the president's Cup and the Vanderbilt Trophy are the highest. Dave Rowan of Rider won the first one over the Potomac River course in 1935, and Irwin Goodman took the second, to bring both of them home to Brooks...
...Rider's Percy Belvin set the British mark of 2:27.8 at the Empire Games in Australia, but Leonard Spence, who swam on the U.S. Olympic team in 1936, set the world record in 2:25 flat. As a sidelight, Brooks also coached Elsie Petri, the girl who held the women's world 500 and 600-yard breaststroke marks...
Swimming became a major sport at Rider, and Rider's swimming team began to have major effects. It left its normal class and took on the powers. The only squad in history to beat Yale in all four individual free style events at New Haven was the 1937-38 team coached by Brooks...
...business men, has become understandably irate about the Democrats' tax-slashing measure. Multiplied by seventy million taxpayers, the twenty dollar cut puts a $1.4 billion inflationary bulge in the economy, although the nation has already recovered from last year's deflation. Democrats attached the twenty-dollar gift as a rider on an an Administration sponsored bill to delay scheduled excise and corporation tax cuts. If the combined bill passes the Senate, the President will have no alternative but to authorizing inflation, for whether he signs or vetoes the bill, the Treasure tax receipts will...