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Whether dealing with men like Pulteney, or discussing such better known figures as Charles Townsend or George III, Namier builds his historical writing on a welter of details and quotations. Yet Namier's prose does more than merely link together the treasures unearthed by his scholarship. It often takes on a sparkle completely its own--"Still George III clung... like a molusc (a molusc who never found his rock)." But Namier is an historical technician as well as a prose artist. The special merit of Namier's work is that the reader is placed as close to the evidence...
Yale's Steve Clark set pool, Eastern, and NCAA records in the 200-yard freestyle race, winning with a time of 1:46.2. Equally impressive, though, were the other Ell swimmers. Toby Mussman, Dave Lyons, and Ed Townsend, who took second, third, and fifth in times of 1:47.0, 1:48.0 and 1:49.4 respectively. Since the winning time in the Big Ten Conference meet last week was 1:48.2 by an Indians swimmer ineligible for the NCAAs. Yale may be able to look for a sweep of the event in the nationals later this month...
Harvard's John Pringle took an early lead over Yale swimming stars Dale Kiefer and Ed Townsend and held it all the way to win the 400-yard individual medley in the Eastern Seaboard Intercollegiate Swimming Championships at Princeton's Dillon Pool last the four events as the three-day meet got under...
...individual medley, Pringle started slowly in the butterfly but picked up distance steadily in the breast and backstrokes, then held off freestyle challenges by Kiefer and Townsend to win by three yards. His time of 4:28.4 established pool and meet records for the event, new to the Easterns this year, and indicate that the versatile senior may have a chance at the NCAA title later this month...
...Friday the Crimson breaststroke squad of Pringle, Chadsey, and Porky Pitts should enter the 200-yard event, though Pringle may choose to defend his 200-yard individual title instead. Ed Seaton will swim in the 200-yard event. Princeton's Gardiner Green in the breaststroke and Yale's Ed Townsend in the medley should provide the leading competition...