Word: ris
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the University of Iowa's Wally Ris, a 195-lb. porpoise of a man, set out for the Olympic games last year, his father was mad: better his son should be painting the house in Chicago than off swimming in London. Even when Wally came home with the zoo-meter free-style championship, his dad, a Polish emigrant who speaks only a little English, balked at letting him go to Bermuda to swim again. He stuck a paintbrush in Wally's fin, and spoke one word of English forcibly: "Commence...
...Swimmer Ris was in Florida. At Daytona Beach's Welch Pools, he sized up his competition for the National A.A.U. zoo-yd. race with a clear water eye. His big feet gripping the tiled rim of the pool, Wally knew just how he would swim this one-in the same slow-starting style that keeps his friends' and coaches' hearts in their mouths until the last...
...Wally Ris, the only man to captain Iowa's team two years running, was ambitious to be a varsity football player rather than a swimmer, still regrets that he didn't make the gridiron grade. He didn't take up swimming until he hurt a knee playing high-school football. The knee still bothers him. His favorite story is how it clicked back into place before his big Olympic race, while he was marching to the flagpole for some welcoming ceremonies...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Carmen, with Risë Stevens, Nadine Conner, Kurt Baum and Robert Merrill...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Mignon, with Risë Stevens and James Melton...