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...stern taskmaster. Kiphuth demands all-out effort, is apt to roar at a swimmer dawdling through his paces: "If you want to take a bath, get a cake of soap." During a hopping exercise, the coach scowled scornfully at a boy who had twisted an ankle, barked: "Get up and hop on the good one." But his swimmers like him. Says one: "A wishy-washy coach who sympathizes with you is no damn good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Master of the Pool | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...Perilman in the 100-yard butterfly, Gary Pildner in the 200-yard backstroke, and Bob Komenda in the 440-yard free-style all performed well enough to win rather easily. Komenda finished two laps ahead of one M.I.T. swimmer...

Author: By Thomas M. Pepper, | Title: Swimmers Beat Weak Engineers | 12/19/1958 | See Source »

...type-cast sexpot keep her cinema charm while 1) pregnant, and 2) on the rise to higher levels of intellect? Can a middle-aged producer reap wild oats? Can a female swimmer be a submarine hostess? Can a tycoon's son carry on? Can a crooner liquidate a photographer? Last week these vital questions met these tentative answers: ¶ Marilyn Monroe, shooting her first Hollywood film (MGM's Some Like It Hot) since she left for New York and re-education two years ago, was pregnant and more intellectual than ever. Marilyn stayed coolly sealed inside the mental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: Cast of Characters | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...first Tarzan who actually spoke whole sentences was Lex Barker, of the New York Social Register, who in 1948 replaced Johnny Weissmuller, the mobil-est Tarzan of them all. An Olympic champion and once the fastest swimmer in the world, Weissmuller also holds the record for longevity as the jungle hero: twelve versions over 16 years. Today's Tarzan is Gordon Scott, 30, with a 50-in. chest. A onetime lifeguard at a Las Vegas hotel, Scott is the first Tarzan in color and CinemaScope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bongo Bongo Boffo | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

...with training at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Merion, Pa.'s Barnes Foundation, started out as a science-fiction bug, was converted to the submarine world almost as soon as he donned his first face mask five years ago at Star Island, N.H. Says Swimmer Swanson: "Why bother going into space or to another planet when there is another world right beneath the waves, and one that is much more accessible in my lifetime." Unlike Cardinal, who sketches on dry land, Swanson has worked out a technique for drawing and coloring underwater. He uses a waterproof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Underwater Colors | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

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