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...victory parties and dances lasted most of the night. Maybe some of them are still going. Harvard men drowned Yale men in gallons of whiskey and then swam in to help out their unhappy brothers. A guy could retire if he had a nickle for every bottle of liquor that went down the hatch Saturday night

Author: By George G. Daniels, | Title: Riotous Crimson Partisans Rip Up Goalposts, Yale Men | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...Annex junior class "reached Yale" yesterday afternoon during the second day of water intramurals in an attempt to complete a mythical journey through eight men's colleges and "get back in time for the Yale game" Saturday. The sophomores, for whom no swimmers had turned out on Monday, swam right past the senior and freshman teams and on 164 lengths to Dartmouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Juniors Swim as Far as Yale In Allegorical Intramural Contest | 11/17/1948 | See Source »

Last year the class of '50 "swam to Bermuda" to take top honors in the intramurals. "Acapulco or Bust" was the objective...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Juniors Swim as Far as Yale In Allegorical Intramural Contest | 11/17/1948 | See Source »

...another sort. It was nearly curtain time, and the conductor was ill. Who would conduct Carmen? In desperation, the director grabbed the 18-year-old singing coach, and ordered him into the pit. "I had no preparation," says Fritz Reiner of that night. "It was sink or swim. I swam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fulfillment in Manhattan | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

Russia's Andrei Vishinsky had fun with the Danube last week. He swam in it, fixed Soviet trade domination over it and turned the Danube conference into a thoroughfare for Soviet propaganda. He was able to steal the show because the Western powers missed a tailor-made chance to unfold point by point Russia's responsibility for the grave economic plight of her satellites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: The Cook & the Potatoes | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

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