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Gustafus Adolfus rose from the ranks to the position of general in the Army-by ability, it is said-leads his own troops in maneuvers, has the personal loyalty of most high Army officers. Ordinary Swedes like him because in his younger days he was an expert skier, golfer, swimmer, horseman, cross-country runner and marksman, as well as being a famed archeologist. Not to be lightly dismissed in any attempted Putsch is this able, strongwilled, elderly Crown Prince. His two wives were English: one, Princess Margaret, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria; the other, Lady Louise Mountbatten, a great-granddaughter...
...Undergraduate Athletic Council came through with a perfect solution to the general dilemma about swimming letters. The Council recommended that even if a swimmer never placed against Yale, he could still get his Major H by simply participating in two meets with the Elis. The biggest difficulty with the present system of awarding a Major H only to those who place in that one letter meet is that too much importance is attached to Yale's strength in any one year...
...Council's plan would make it possible for a good Harvard swimmer to win his big H regardless of Yale's strength. The swimmers themselves feel that this plan is the best answer to the whole problem. The recommendation will undoubtedly come up for discussion at the next session of the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports...
Handsome, hulking Norman Ross was a great Olympic swimmer, a World War flier, later managed athletic tourists like Tilden, Nurmi, reported for the Chicago Journal. Now he is grey, 43, and made $25,000 last year as a Chicago radio character known to WMAQ's listeners as Uncle Normie. He has five programs on the air, the main one being an early-risers' hour for Chicago & North Western Railway. For this Uncle Normie has three alarm clocks, timed to go off one after another starting...
...ruled out of the finals in the 220 when timers and judges disagreed in the trial heat in which he was entered. A man gets into the finals of an event by turning in one of the six best times in the preliminary heats, necessitating multiple coming on each swimmer in each race. Curwen was declared the winner over Sanburn of Yale by the finish judges, but the timers clocked him two-tenths of second slower than the Eli. Unfortunately, the timers' verdict is all-important...