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...took first prize ($2,775) in the voice competition. At first glance, Marsh seemed too good to sing true. A tall (5 ft. 11 in.) blonde with a fresh-scrubbed athletic look, she is the embodiment of a capitalist American background. She was a tomboy, an expert swimmer, a 4-H girl who in true Walt Disney tradition sold her favorite horse to pay for music lessons. She sang in public professionally for the first time only last season, when Erich Leinsdorf signed her to sing in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Boston...
...Swimmer Dave Abramson '65 is a classic example of the falling athlete. He set NCAA freshman records in both the 220 and 440 yard freestyles and defeated Yale's Ed Townsend and Dave Lyons both on the same day Eventually Abramson became the team's captain, but he never reached the promise of his freshman year...
...college career of a Crimson swimmer who eventually became an Olympian, Brooks asked him, "Why didn't you go to Yale?" "Those were the old days," says Brooks. "That boy was giving 80 per cent of his energy to swimming at a time when I was giving a corny speech about dedicating 30 per cent to swimming...
...Swimmer Pete Adams, University record-holder in the 500-yard freestyle, got the other two Crimson goals. Goalie Jim Babcock, a kicking specialist on the football team, had 17 saves...
...Crimson began the meet by gliding to an easy victory in the 400-yard medley relay. Brooks entered only one swimmer in the next event, the 200-yard freestyle. Bob Buster, in his first race since a bout with the flu, took second behind the Lions' Bill Damm. Andy Grinstead tore off with the 50 in moderate time, 23.5 seconds, as sophomore Dan Magraw was just touched out for second...