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Commenting on the open class possibilities, Brooks said that he expects entries from Steve Wise, Varsity free-styler last winter, and Art Sicular, who swam the free-style, anchor leg on the Freshman relay team which defeated Yale last term...
Outside was chaos and the incongruities inseparable from disaster. A terrier bitch whelped beside a dazed crowd at the foot of the memorial to Texas City's World War II dead. A Negro, suffering from concussion after being blown off the dock into the bay, swam back, walked to his blasted home, started patching it with hammer and nails. One man emerged from the rubble of the Texas Terminal Railway Building carrying $10 million in insurance policies in a bedsheet. He turned them over to the police. After dark, the inevitable looters worked the ruins...
...They traveled by jeep, mule, native pony, oxcart, sampan or on foot, were almost always supplied by air. Some of them headed west of Chungking toward Tibet, and into mountain country which no white man had ever explored. Others battled leech-ridden jungles and flooded rivers; one group swam a swollen stream to find the bodies of a B-29 crew, swam back, pushing their grisly burden on a raft...
Pierson College turned the tables on the Lowell swimmers at the Indoor Athletic Building, and averted complete disaster for the Elis with a 29 to 19 win. Bob Goodspeed swam in three events for the seven-man Bellboy squad, and triumphed in both the 50-and 100-yard freestyles, touching out captain Al Pargelis of Pierson to win the latter event in 58.9 seconds...
...Thaxter Swam '45 and Geoffrey White '48 were named as co-chairmen to handle the details of the picket line...