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...there's one man who doesn't expect to be taken in by wild dreams of success. Coach Hal Ulen is taking particular pains this year to keep the Crimson heads below the swelling point. Not that every Yale meet swimmer isn't justified in running around muttering "We beat Yale" to himself. It isn't every day that Harvard is able to break a string of 163 victories. But Ulen is watching out for over-confidence. He's got a team just now that's tops, and you can be pretty sure that he's going to break...
...pool, they all know he's good. He beat Jameson in the Alumni meet December 16. Of course, Jamie was out of condition, but the time for the breast was 1:07, which is not to be sneered at when the season's just beginning and the swimmer has just changed over to breast-stroke...
...Associated Press poll of 50 leading sportswriters revealed Tennist Donald Budge as No. 1 U. S. male athlete of 1937; Swimmer Katherine Rawls, No. 1 female athlete of 1937; the New York Yankees, No. 1 athletic team...
...different affair, however, was the expulsion from Yugoslavia's capital last week of Hubert D. Harrison, chief Balkan correspondent for Reuters, British news agency, and part-time reporter for the New York Times. As Mr. Harrison's train pulled out of Belgrade, he got a Channel-swimmer's ovation from a noisy crowd of fellow journalists, students and well-known politicians. Mr. Harrison's exile was in itself unique. It had to do with Mickey Mouse...
...stupidity of colonial government and everything about it. There is an express- ive and all inclusive word which fits the characters presented by Messrs. Raymond Massey and John Carradine to a T. Mr. Massey feels it incumbent upon him to dog the innocent tracks of Jon Hall, native swimmer, sailor, lover, and physical specimen extraordinary, Mr. Carradine taking a sadistic pleasure in trying to break the will of the same. And all the while Mr. Hall is suffering from the folly he does not understand, a lovely wife, Dorothy Lamour, is waiting on the island paradise of Manukura...