Word: strokings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been in training for less than two weeks in the Newell tanks. The coach is still in the early stages of experimentation with combinations to fill three gaps in his 1948 boat. However, he has a strong nucleus in five returning veterans of his near-Olympic crew last year: stroke Bill Carwen, Captain Frank Strong, Ted Reynolds, Don Felt, and Mike Scully are all on hand. Several contenders from the Jayvees are in the running for the empty slides...
...Berke are teamed in the 100-yard freestyle. Woods and John Steinhardt will fight out the 150-yard backstroke, while Hoelzer and Ward will manage the 200-yard breast stroke. Ted Norris, undefeated this season in the 440-yard freestyle, will try again, backed by Captain German, Fox, Brown, MacVicar, and Berke will round off the meet--and possibly decide it-- in the 400-yard freestyle relay...
...meet will take in both speed and form races, relays, diving, and a special novelty performance. The speed and form contests will each be divided into freestyle, back stroke, and breast stroke events. Two relays, a 60 yard medley, and an 80 yard freestyle, will provide opportunity for team work by each class...
Died. William Rust, 45, cockney-born founding member of the British Communist Party and since 1930 editor of the London Daily Worker (circ. 120,000); of a stroke; in London...
Although only the second and fifth of King Henry's wives* actually went from the bed to the block, English folklore (and the cinema) have stressed the Bluebearded side of his life. But history, with a surer stress on the important, credits Henry with a stroke more momentous than any ever struck by his executioners: he severed the Church in England from the Church of Rome...