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Stetz, just before the diving, had finished close behind Austin in the individual medley, as Austin swam a 2:10.1 for a Yale freshman record. Austin's time was only half a second off the National intercollegiate record and Stetz's was a hair faster than the Harvard record set just last week by Dave Bennett...
...zany scoring was a result of several races in which only two men were entered--the Qunkers were so short-handed they often could not find a man to swim for an automatic third. And the final relay--even Crimson diver Clark Peters swam in this one--turned the whole meet into a circus as the two teams finished in a dead heat, something that anyone can tell you never happens in swimming...
Marching north to do battle with the Communists, Royal Laotian soldiers tossed hand grenades in the Nam Song River and jumped in afterward to scoop up the stunned banana fish that floated to the surface. They swam, roasted pigs and fish over open fires, and drank plenty of Mekong rice whisky, paid for by their commanding officer and flown in every day by Sikorsky helicopters manned by U.S. civilian pilots...
...traditional sculptors, the third Calder was a bit bored with the idea of becoming one himself. He started out to be an engineer. In the 1920s he began making statues (Josephine Baker, Helen Wills) in wire, produced a series of wire goldfish bowls in which the fish swam rhythmically back and forth at the turn of a crank. Out of his contact with Mondrian, he wanted to do "a Mondrian that moves." Thus the mobile...
Mulligan continued unbeaten in the distance events, with victories in both the 220 and the 440 yard freestyle, while Hunter, Kaufmann (with victories in the backstroke and the medley relay), and Schellstede (who won the breaststroke and swam in the opening relay) were also double winners for the Crimson...