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...Crimson has lost only one good swimmer while adding several outstanding individuals from last winter's once-beaten freshman team. For once, it is possible to think with some realism about a victory over Yale, which Harvard last defeated...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Swim Season Opens Today | 12/1/1970 | See Source »

South House won last week's Radcliffe Fall Swimming Marathon despite heroic efforts by three North House swimmers. Thomas Beale of North House was the leading swimmer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: So. House Wins Swim Marathon | 11/6/1970 | See Source »

Ulen said that Robert Kennedy was "a fairly good swimmer, but he was a little heavy in the water... he would sink very easily...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: Harvard Coaches Recall Kennedy As Frail and Mediocre Athlete | 10/21/1970 | See Source »

...When he swam out from that island where he was, for rescue work, I followed that. I said at the time, 'It's a good thing he's a good swimmer or they would've been in trouble," Ulen said...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: Harvard Coaches Recall Kennedy As Frail and Mediocre Athlete | 10/21/1970 | See Source »

...impossible to translate a short story into a quality film. A good short story captures a brief glimpse of the human condition, turns on a fleeting moment of confrontation or revelation; a movie derived from such a microcosm is usually afflicted with a bad case of inflation. Take The Swimmer, John Cheever's mythic pool odyssey. One of the finest short stories in a generation, it was magnified into one of the worst movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Meshugge | 8/3/1970 | See Source »

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