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Harvard's swimming team didn't do as well as Yale against Penn Saturday at the IAB, but they sure came close. Crimson Coach Bill Brooke used an experimental makeup-- Bill Shrout swam in only one event, and breaststroker Bob Corris led off the freestyle relay -- but that didn't deter the Crimson as they swamped the Quakers, 71-23, amassing only three points less than the Yalies...
Dartmouth set out to upset the Crimson on the strength of star sprinter Brad Lindeblad. He swam the last leg of the 400-yard medley and touhed out Harvard's Jim Seubold, then tried to come back immediately and give Dartmouth a sweep in the 50-yard freestyle. But he tired on the last leg and lost second place to Bill Chase...
...Japan-bound freighter. Packed shoulder to shoulder below decks in 120° heat, they were given neither food nor water, drank one another's urine to survive. While the ship was still off the Philippines, U.S. bombers blasted it, killing some 300 of the American prisoners. Survivors who swam ashore were hauled by boxcars to Lingayen Gulf and loaded aboard another freighter, which was forced to dock at Formosa with engine trouble. Six days later, U.S. planes bombed the island, killing outright 100 more Americans. In the next three days hundreds of wounded men died for lack of medical...
...Conrad's adventures is related in The Arrow of Gold. The adventure began when Conrad, then only 19, was running guns off the Spanish coast for the Carlist Pretender to the Spanish throne. Pursued by a Spanish warship, the captain ran the ship on the rocks. All aboard swam safely to shore, hid in a cellar until the way to France was clear...
...wings, and stroked off toward shore, figuring to hide out. But as he neared the beach, he saw a group of men watching him. "One looked like a kid," he recalled. "I actually remember saying hello." Gunfire from the beach told him it was time to say goodbye. Huggins swam seaward, firing an occasional round from his waterlogged Smith & Wesson .38 to keep the snipers low. Then he saw two swimmers trying to outflank him from the north. "I squeezed off a couple at them, but I missed," he lamented later...