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Whatever he decided, insisted Mr. Ickes last week, let no one think he pictured the office as a springboard to the White House. "It might also.'' he said, "be used as an exit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Ickes' Exit? | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

Harvard's divers face new problems this year. The National Collegiate Athletic Association has made important changes in the five compulsory dives from the three-meter or high board, with the result that four new required dives will have to be learned for the coming season by the Crimson springboard experts...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: NEW TWISTS ADDED TO REQUIRED HIGH DIVES | 12/3/1938 | See Source »

...fourth is described as the "backward spring, forward dive. This flip-flop is the same as the regular back-jack-knife, but it omits the jack. Fifth dive, the "half-twist backward," is the fourth dive with a half-twist added, the diver entering the water facing the springboard...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: NEW TWISTS ADDED TO REQUIRED HIGH DIVES | 12/3/1938 | See Source »

Shadow to Shakespeare. Shoemaker to Shaw-all in one season-might be a whole career for most men, but for Welles it is only Springboard to Success. Nor does he want the Mercury to pin all its faith on the classics: he pines to do a real mystery, a real farce, a British pantomime, a fast revue, a Mozart opera. He has shown in Heartbreak House, with its careful, elegant sets by John Koenig, that the sceneryless stage of Julius Caesar and The Cradle Will Rock was not the fetish of a flash in the Pantheon, but simply a well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Marvelous Boy | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...schedule for this evening are the finals in the 50, 150 backstroke, 300 medley relay, and low-board diving. In the latter event will be found competitors who are all about equally good. Rusty Greenhood, Dan Edweiss, Bill Danforth, Ed Gibson, and Harry Cranston are entered in the springboard classic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEAGUE STARS SWIM AT HARVARD TODAY | 3/18/1938 | See Source »

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