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...strong enthusiasm. The team has been successful in the past, as indicated by last year's record of 4-0 in dual meets and co-championship in Greater Boston, but collegiate competition has grown tougher in recent years and Radcliffe swimming has had to adjust to remain a top splasher...

Author: By Karen M. Bromberg, | Title: Radcliffe Aquawomen See Bright Season Ahead | 10/28/1975 | See Source »

...left movieland, unwanted and disgusted, five years ago-Tonight's Jack Paar was conquering the West Coast with some of the most wildly funny shows of his career. Paar and guests (among them: Bob Hope, Groucho Marx, Hans Conreid) splashed inspired nonsense all over the screen. Biggest splasher: muffin-faced Pianist and Professional Psychopath Oscar Levant ("On my own show I wear black tie and strait jacket"). Oscar warmly congratulated Paar-"You have the most responsive audience since Adolf Hitler in the good old days"-offered capsule analyses of a few colleagues. Eddie and Liz: "How high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Busy Air | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...vintners of the Palatinate sought (as they do every year) a name to distinguish the 1947 vintage. What to call this year of hunger, hate, uncertainty, and growing fear? The vintners discarded Kalorienspritzer (calory splasher) and Zonenschleicher (zonal sneaker). They chose Knochenrappler, which means "rattler of bones." The children of Germany knew well what the vintners meant; thousands of German kids, searching for food, rattled bones in garbage cans. If they found an egg, however stale, it was precious. And if the egg could be cooked in an old war helmet (see cut), that was a symbol of the menacing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: A Rattle of Bones | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

Frank Vanghan, intramural swimming coach, said that between 30 and 40 entrants are expected to compete. Yardling splasher will strive in the following events: 50-yard free style; 100-yard free style; 200-yard free style; 100-yard backstroke; 100-yard breaststroke; 75-yard medley swim, and the dive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardlings Will Splash in Intramural Aquatic Meet | 3/31/1937 | See Source »

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