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Following Captain Bill Shrout's record-breaking example, Coach Benn Merritt's freshmen came from behind in the final freestyle relay to upset highly-favored Dartmouth 50-45. Shrout anchored the relay in a cool 47.4 seconds, the fastest 100-yard split ever done by a Harvard swimmer...
Andy Grinstead and Bob Meredith took the 100 freestyle for the third Crimson sweep, and Henry Whelchel led Al Lincoln to the finish in the backstroke. The only race in which a Brown swimmer beat a Harvard swimmer at all was the breastroke. Harvard's Bob Corris swam by Brown's Tom Wilder and Nick Whitlam took third for the varsity...
When Aggrey Awori or Merle McClung breaks a University record, his praises are sung from one end of Harvard to the other. Yet freshman swimmer Bill Shrout, who set a new mark in the 200-yard individual medley against Army last week, has had so little recognition that he might have been attacked by a shark during the second lap without anyone noticing...
...last event was the obstacle relay. The first swimmer, Suzie Burchell, was asked to dive in, swim, and do a handstand: Carol Glaser did the corkscrew (turning over between strokes), and picked up a weight; Alex Murray side-stroked carrying the weight; and Jane Mansfield swam, sat on the bottom of the pool, and then walked to the edge...
...week's end, with all counties still not heard from, the topless suit remained a most delicate issue. As with Fanny Hill, the meek trembled while the smart set shrugged. English Channel Swimmer Florence Chadwick got practical and confused things even more. "I'm too modest to wear a topless suit," said she, "but it actually would be more comfortable. It would be even more comfortable to swim without the bot tom as well...