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...consistent winner on Coach Harold Ulen's first Harvard swimming team this year. He swims in the sprint events and had been undefeated in intercollegiate competition until the Yale meet on Wednesday. In that meet he came in third in the 50-yard, swim, second in the 100 and swam anchor on the relay team. Wood is one of a group of Sophomores around whom Coach Ulen is planning to build his teams of the next two years. He prepared for college at Punahou Academy, Honolulu...
...legends in U. S. journalism, that of Joseph Pulitzer shines brightest and most familiar. Dull indeed is the cub reporter who cannot recite the story of the gangling, weak-eyed boy of 17 who, though no "poor immigrant," shrewdly slipped overboard from his ship in Boston Harbor and swam ashore to collect for himself the bounty on his Civil War enlistment; of the taller, young ex-soldier who rode brakerods from New York to St. Louis, in whose friendly German atmosphere he made his way as a journalist; of how he married Kate Davis, daughter of a distant cousin...
Edward Pickering Parker '34, of Danvers, who has figured well all year in the swimming meets, was elected captain of the Freshman swimmers. Parker won the 100-yard free style, and swam on the relay team at the Andover meet...
Edward VII, late British King-Emperor, had a wasp-waisted tomboy daughter Maud who swam, rowed, handled a yacht smartly, ran a typewriter, bound books, carved wood, played chess, advocated female suffrage-energetic traits which she inherited from her Danish mother, the dazzling and haughty British Queen-Empress Alexandra, sister of still more dazzling, still more imperious Marie Feodorovna, Empress of All The Russias. The two Empresses were resolved that Maud should become at least a queen- of what...
...Aires, he was plotting the present rebellion with revolutionists in Brazil. On the morning of May 10 he left for Rio Grande do Sul in a plane of the Buenos Aires-Paris airmail. The plane fell into the sea off Montevideo. All on board except "Lucky Juan" drowned. He swam lustily ashore...