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...Saari. No. 1 Wunderkind of the three-day contest was 17-year-old Don Schollander, chunky (5 ft. 10 in., 160 Ibs.) star of the Santa Clara, Calif., Swim Club. At 16, Schollander set American freestyle records at 200, 400 and 500 yards. Fighting off old age, he twice broke through the two-minute barrier in the 200-meter freestyle before traveling to Japan. Last week, under the mesmerized eyes of TV cameras, newsreel photographers and 7,500 sophisticated Japanese swimming fans, he coolly did it again, "hydroplaning" (as one dazzled Tokyo sportswriter put it) up and down Jingu Pool...
...freestyle--won by Burgess (Y); 2. Southall (H); 3. Bedford (Y). Time--4:41.1. 200-yd. breaststroke--won by Bary (Y); 2. Saari (Y); 3. Parsons (H). Time--2:39.3. 400-yd. freestyle relay--won by Harvard (Finlayson, Zentgraf, Eisenbrey, Kaufmann). Time--3:28.2 (new Harvard Freshman record, old record of 3:37.7 set in 1959 by these same swimmers...
...triumphs of the show belongs to Charles Saari, the only excellent child actor since Brandon De Wilde. Despite rare roughness and lapses out of context, his intense performance of Sonny is outstanding. He pouts, squawks, broods, lunges, and captures the audience. Timmy Everett, playing the well-written role of the older young man who kills himself between the acts, is equally excellent...
...JOHN SAARI...