Word: swimmers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Columbus. Ohio, Hawaii's Ford Konno, freewheeling free-style swimmer for Ohio State, set a new world record for the 220-yd. distance, 2:04.8, breaking the record set by Australia's John Marshall in 1950 by seven-tenths of a second. ¶ At Davos, Switzerland, Russia's Boris Shilkov became the first man from his country ever to win the European speed skating championship, edging Norway's famed Hjalmar Andersen, 198.058 points...
...Dartmouth has a junior swimmer named John Glover. Ulen calls him "the outstanding swimmer in the East." Glover "beat all the Yalies and broke all Dartmouth records" in the 100. John Heyn backs him up in this event and will probably take the 50-yard sprint himself...
...teammate Jim Jorgensen, who took the 100-yard freestyle. Jorgensen had been undefeated himself until he was beaten by Hawkins in the 200-yard freestyle in the same meet. Ralph Zani is the only other member of the squad who has not lost to an opposing swimmer, although Hawkins beat him in the Springfield meet, setting a Harvard record for the breaststroke in the process...
...troubles of a freshman swimming coach is "to get the boy for a long enough workout. He can't spend all his time at the pool, and the time he does spend is not enough to do a sizable job of developing him into a great swimmer. All the boys have fine possibilities, but they can't give the time to become great swimmers...
...long moments after that, Ramon Magsaysay all but disappeared from sight. Occasionally his head would bob up like a swimmer's over the surging sea of humanity while official loudspeakers blared: "Please, please, we don't want to mangle the new President." At last Magsaysay was lifted to the shoulders of some of his constituents while others tried to reach up and wipe the sweat from his streaming brow. When he reached his car, one sleeve of his sport shirt had been torn off. His pants were saved only by the safety pins with which he had foresightedly...