Word: swimmers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the early evening, Laszlo Magyar, a Hungarian swimmer, eclipsed an M.I.T. pool record of :61 by one-tenth of a second in the 100 yard backstroke. Other swimmers participated in races and demonstrations...
...match between Hammond and Bill Veck, M.I.T. varsity swimmer, provided the evening's most unusual performance. The Harvard man swam the breast stroke, While Veck paced him with freestyle. The engineer led by a small margin for the first fifty yards, but Hammond overtook him and won in the final feet. vard did not swim competitively. Dave Hawkins '56, former Crimson varsity swimmer and a 1952 Australian Olympic team member, now a graduate student, illustrated the evolution of the breast stroke in a series of demonstrations...
...yard free style with a time of :50.3. Ron Mischner was second for the Crimson, and Dick Duane was third for Tech. Hammond's :58.6 in the 100-yard butterfly was two-tenths of a second better than the record set by now Olympic swimmer Dave Hawkns in 1954. Bob Jaffe was second for the Crimson, with Gene Getchell taking third for M.I.T...
...last-minute reminder of what the Olympics lost when the Dutch withdrew (TIME, Nov. 19), Holland's lithe young (16) swimmer, Atie Voorbij, lowered the world's 100-meter butterfly record by 1.3 seconds, churned the distance in 1:10.5. Next day her teammate, Ada den Haan, 15, set a new 200-meter breaststroke record...
...India, and they put up in Calcutta for repairs. There Elinore, 39, who had been seasick all across the Atlantic, thought of the ocean travel ahead and decided to jump ship. Skipper Carlin ran advance ads in Australian newspapers for a replacement. All he wanted was a strong swimmer who was also a motor mechanic and a radio maintenance man and had enough money to repatriate himself from anywhere enroute. He got a 23-year-old Perth draftsman named Barry Hanley who knew something about small boats...