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Born Lou Rapaport in New Haven, 32-year-old Barry Wood is, like Rudy Vallee and Lanny Ross, one of Yale University's gifts to popular music. He took his Ph.B. in 1930, was a crack relay swimmer and water poloist. Recently Barry Wood was named nation's "Sweater Boy"-by two knitting works, in a belated effort to right the unbalance created by Hollywood's sweater girls...
...Zealander named Bernard Cyril Freyberg; he is now 51 and a major general. At 16 he had already made some New Zealand records as a swimmer. Before World War I he was a restless young dentist in San Francisco, called "Tiny" because he was so huge. The Mexican Revolution in 1914 lured him across the Rio Grande on Pancho Villa's side; but he heard of the war in Europe, walked 300 miles to the west coast, earned his way to Britain by winning a swimming meet in Los Angeles and later a boxing match in Harlem. He became...
...addition to being coach of the Freshman swimmers, 39-year-old Peterson is also Varsity diving mentor and is chiefly responsible for Varsity divers Shaw McCutcheon and Brad Patterson, who, before coming under Peterson's tutelage, had never dove in competition. This year, he succeeded in converting Freshman swimming Captain John D. Eusden from a mere beginner into a swimmer who has reportedly done 54.6 for the 100-yard free style...
...show involved more theatrical hokum than Belasco cooked up in a life time; jiltings, blackmailings, fake marriages, et al. Last week reality caught up with it. Heavy with her third child by her third husband, Swimmer Peter Pick, Daughter Donna ran through her lines as Marge one day, died 14 and a half hours later in Englewood, N. J. delivering...
...dropped from 54 plus to 53 plus in the century. Lonnie Stowell and Ted McNitt are two other standout members of the free-style brigade. Both are big Seniors, Stowell a seasoned veteran, and McNitt a late-comer to the Varsity. Last year he was a House swimmer, and now he is paired with Stowell in the 50. McNitt's 50 against Brown was one of the best meet performances by a Harvard swimmer in that event in several years. Stowell is a consistent 54 man in the century and may dip down below that figure any time...