Word: swum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hundred and twenty-five men who have swum for the College in the last 30 years honored their retired coach and friend, Harold Ulen, at a dinner at the Harvard Club of Boston, Saturday...
...puts the town in a tizzy by seeming to drown in the Skunk River. Unlike Mark Twain, who allowed Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn to attend their own funeral after a similar drowning escapade, Author Kentfield arranges a highly un-Twainlike denouement. Seems that V.R. had swum the river to scare one of the town tomgirls into granting him her favors. In a third story that brakes compassion just short of tears, Ira himself leaves his mother lonely and heartbroken by bolting for the great world beyond the Skunk and the Mississippi...
...Elis' top man is its captain, Foster DeJesus, who has swum the 100-yard freestyle in 53.0 seconds. Peter Lusk has recorded Yale's best time, 23.6 seconds, in the 50-yard freestyle...
...Philadelphia meet, varsity captain Chouteau Dyer settled the question of the Harvard record in the 100-yard freestyle by swimming a 49.8. Previously, Dyer had swum 49.9 in an exhibition meet with the Hungarian Olympic team at MIT; this time had been questioned as a record since the meet was of doubtful official status. Dyer's time was also a Penn pool record...
...told my wife that Charlie would call it like Black Jack-and he did." Charlie has spent a night in jail (in Florida, when MPs arrested him for overcelebrating V-E day and adding a bright red tie to his uniform), hitchhiked 4,000 miles around Europe, swum near Barcelona and skied in Switzerland. Says a friend: "He has never wanted for girls. They're usually attractive and not intellectual fireballs." Charlie can even cook. His specialty: chicken pilaff...