Word: swam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kirkland House took first place in the 200-yd. relay, breaking a 1944 record with a new time of 1:40.2. Ed Walsh, Sam Baily, Mal Davis and Dick Hamlin swam for the Deacons. The old record of 1:44.2, was also held by Kirkland...
MacDonald is credited with a 2:28 in the 200-yard breaststroke for Springfield; Jim Stanley swam a 2:31.8 to win for the varsity on Saturday...
...surf off the Mexican resort of Acapulco swam a typical Hollywood twosome, dashing Cinemactor Michael Wilding and jet-powered Cinemagnate Michael Todd. After splashing about, the two Mikes reportedly had a drink together. Then twice-married Mike Wilding ex ited after freeing his ailing wife, Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 24, who had a relapse after a shopping tour with him, to get a divorce and marry twice-married Mike Todd, twice...
...Hungarian team, which gained asylum after the end of the 1956 Olympics, swam last night as part of a nation-wide fund raising tour. The water polo team, which defeated Russia in a highly controversial game in the 1956 Olympics, split into two squads and staged first a mock game, then a "winter rugby match," involving heads and feet instead of hands. match," involving heads and feet instead of hands...
...match between Hammond and Bill Veck, M.I.T. varsity swimmer, provided the evening's most unusual performance. The Harvard man swam the breast stroke, While Veck paced him with freestyle. The engineer led by a small margin for the first fifty yards, but Hammond overtook him and won in the final feet. vard did not swim competitively. Dave Hawkins '56, former Crimson varsity swimmer and a 1952 Australian Olympic team member, now a graduate student, illustrated the evolution of the breast stroke in a series of demonstrations...