Word: splash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...breaststroke event should also prove close. Flying 200 yards in a time of 2:41.4, George Simihtsi last year copped first place against the Crimson natators, beating out Rob White and Max Kraus. The same pair will splash tomorrow for the Ulenmen but the outcome is uncertain due to the rapid improvement of "Diesel" White...
...Mitropoulos is a pious Orthodox Catholic who always wears a crucifix and a medal of the Virgin, almost followed his family's bent toward the monastery. Composer and pianist, he was trained in Greece and Germany, built the orchestra of the Athens Conservatory, made his first U. S. splash in Boston. He looks somewhat like a figure from a can vas by another great Greek, Domenico Theotocopuli (called El Greco in Spain, where he lived). The Mitropoulitan way of playing music is a bit El Grecoesque: lean, angular, edgy, sometimes distorted...
Coach Hal Ulen's nataterial side show led by Captain Franny Powers invades the brand new M.I.T. pool tonight at 8 o'clock highly favoured to leave the Bollermakers from along the Basin hanging on the splash gutters and gasping for breath, if respective clockings to-date carry any weight...
Hedda lives in a small, eight-room house with a pair of dachshunds, spends much of her income on clothes. At least a dozen Hollywood columnists have bigger circulations than Hedda, but none of them makes so much of a splash as she does. She scooped the town on Jimmy Roosevelt's divorce, recently came through again with news of the Myrna Loy-Arthur Hornblow break-up six weeks before it happened...
...aboard ship without benefit of plot may seem to drag in spite of honest acting, deft direction, superb photography and Richard Hageman's salty musical score. Best shot: the Glencairn's crew plastered prone on the ship's deck, with only the roar of Stukas, the splash of bombs on the water, the splatter of machine-gun bullets on the white canvas to indicate a Nazi bombing raid...