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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before this season, the best Crimson breast stroke time was 2:24.8, but Hawkins cut this down to 2:22 in the varsity's opener against Springfield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hawkins Sets Pool Mark as Varsity Wins | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

Hawkins has established three Crimson swimming records so far this season. In his first varsity meet, the opener against Springfield on December 12, he swam the 220 free style in 2:09.6, chopping more than a second off a 1937 mark of 2:10.8. In the same meet he cut a 2:24.8 record in the 200-yard breast stroke down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hawkins to Swim For Australia in '54 Empire Meet | 3/3/1954 | See Source »

Hawkins bettered by four seconds the mark of 2:22 he set against Springfield in the season's opener last Dec. 12. This came five events after he led teammate Gus Johnson to the finish in the 50-yard free-style...

Author: By L. THOMAS Linden, | Title: Varsity, Yardling Swimmers Beat Nassau, Edge Williston | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

...Season. In Springfield, Minn., Alfred Schneider, arrested for threatening a woman on a street corner with a knife, was released after he told police he had mistaken her for his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 22, 1954 | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

...Illinois State Library in Springfield launched a campaign "to make it impossible for our children to obtain smut." Among the first volumes marked with the words "This book is for adult readers": John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, some of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales. Needed for a youngster who wants to get any of them: a librarian's decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

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