Word: springboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's best springboard diver is a carrot-topped, 21-year-old University of Texas senior named David ("Skippy") Browning. Skippy has won four Amateur Athletic Union National Indoor diving titles and four National Collegiate Indoor titles, and in Helsinki this summer he led the U.S. to a 1-2-3 sweep of Olympic springboard diving (TIME...
...California's shapely Mrs. Patricia McCormick, already winner of the women's springboard-diving title, climbed the ladder, and with a superb exhibition (e.g., a running, flying one-and-a-half somersault with pike, a handstand with forward cut-through half-gainer layout) took first place in the high-diving contest. Paula Jean Myers and Mrs. Juno Stover Irwin took second and third to make the sweep...
Among the week's standout athletes: ¶ The University of Texas' David ("Skippy") Browning, who led the U.S.'s 1-2-3 sweep in springboard diving...
...University of Texas-carrot-topped junior, David ("Skippy") Browning, 21, first-or second-place taker in every national springboard (3-meter) diving meet since 1948, a perfectionist who showed almost splashless style last week in piling up his winning 1,037.45 points...
Maugham is Britain's last playwright with Restoration blood in his veins. It is very cold blood; feeling curdles the comedy of manners. It can tingle at naughtiness, but it treats sex as a springboard rather than a swimming pool. Maugham's Constance Middleton can pretend ignorance of her husband's affair with her best friend, can lie to save them when the other husband learns the truth. And-for all that she and Middleton have fallen amiably out of love-she will not herself take a lover until she earns a living, is no more...