Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somewhat equally rich is the 200 yd. breast stroke, with Captain Chuck Hoelzer, a power here, supported by Don Ulen, son of the Coach, returning to water sport after three dry years of China duty with the Marine Corps. Short On Sprinters...
Most outstanding 50 yd. man now present and accounted for, with the eligibility of Norm Watkins and Bill MacVicar still in doubt, is Milt Busby. The latter operative, who learned his sleek stroke in the warm Caribbean waters which wash the Puerto Riean literal, is currently paired with Al Weatherhead in the 100 freestyle...
...fraud. "Beyond a doubt," said the Quarterly, "they will become collectors' items . . . treasured with comparable fabrications on the grand scale." Why had the papers been forged? In Topeka last week, 77-year-old William Horn said nothing. His wife told newsmen that he had suffered a stroke. As to the Horn Papers, he was "no longer interested...
Died. Dudley Digges, 68, veteran character actor; after a stroke; in Manhattan. One of Dublin's original Abbey Players, wry-eyed, roly-poly Digges came to the U.S. in 1904, stayed to join the infant Theatre Guild, played in 25 Guild productions (including Liliom, The Doctor's Dilemma). He reached stardom in 1938 as "Gramps," who chased Death up a tree in On Borrowed Time, won his final laurels in O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh...
...pleasure, and tells how once, when the crew was not rowing up to par, he let forth a yolley of curses at them. "I was one of those Puritanical, goody-goody Boston boys," he recounts, so the crew had never before heard him swear, and Charles Francis Adams, the stroke, turned around and said, "Damn it, Woody. How in Hell can we row if you swear...