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...breaking the world's mark for the back-stroke. When Coach Ulen wasn't talking about Stowell, he was marvelling at George C. Scott '34, who came up from a House team to astonish tire coach as a sprint star. In his Junior year, Scott was just another swimmer for Lowell House. In his Senior year he took both short distance events at the Eastern Intercollegiates at Rutgers...
...since 1844 has a Great Auk (Alca impennis) trod the earth. It was a large flightless sea bird, slightly smaller than a goose and more docile. An expert swimmer and diver, its feet hurt so much that it often lay stretched prone on the rocks. The Auk laid only one egg a year but no two eggs were ever alike in size, shape or color...
None of the apparatus, which is the source of income for the more optimistic body-builders, litters up the office of the Harvard Square Hercules. Just a small bare room opening off the entrance hall suffices. The course will bring back memories to any football player or swimmer, or poorly developed Freshman of the courses given by the University's calisthenic directors...
Mary Louise Peck's impersonation of the Maid of Orleans was part of a pageant given last fortnight at semiswank Atlantic Beach Club on Long Island. Most of them scantily clad to represent such characters as Messalina, Mae West and Pocahontas, the performers included Swimmer Helen Meany, a semi-nude showgirl and that most formidable and ubiquitous of socialites. Mrs. S. Stanwood Menken. To dine and see the pageant 251 persons had bought tickets at $7.50 each and, to give the spectacle an air of righteous charity, the profits, if any, were to go to a local fire department...
...lady golfers in Kansas City. Dallas and Norfolk where a Mrs. Tom Hanes said she saw no reason for women to be "bundled up like eskimos." Even more enthusiastic about the story than any of its rivals, the New York American ran a four-column spread with pictures of Swimmer Eleanor Holm, Tennist Helen Jacobs and Golfer Bea Gottlieb...