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...ever since they got third place in the NCAAs last year. This may be the Eli's last chance for some time to come; although they are gaining Don Schollander from their freshmen team, Yale's depth comes almost entirely from seniors like Clark, Roger Goettsche, Dale Keifer, Ed Townsend, and Dave Lyons...
Though Goettsche and Townsend give Yale strength in the backstroke and individual medley, the Bulldogs are basically a freestyle team. The Yalies are hoping that the final freestyle relay will be the deciding event. With Clark on the anchor leg, the Yalies, who are defending champions, can take anyone...
...Beard of Navy, who placed only third in the individual medley against Harvard in December, edged Yale's Ed Townsend to win the gruelling 400-yard individual in 4:26.9, breaking the old record held by John Pringle of Harvard. In the 500-yard freestyle, defending champion Harrison Merrill of North Carolina nosed out Princeton's Chris Brown to win in 4:58.1, also a new meet record...
Behind Clark are Olympians Ed Townsend, a consistent two-minute individual medley man, and Dave Lyons, a freestyler and butterfly expert. Backstroker Roger Goettsche swam the 200-yard backstroke in 1:57.4 last year, about ten seconds better than Harvard's best. Dale Kiefer, like Lyons and Goettsche a graduate of New Trier High School, took second in the 200-yard breaststroke in the NCAA championships last year with a time...
Jean Untermeyer displays a persevering but uneven personality, one dedicated to passion and sensibility but continually drawn to the comforting but humdrum virtues of a tidy housewife. Her prose reflects this dichotomy, ranging from the limpest of cliches to flights of intuitive perception, as in her lines about Sylvia Townsend Warner: "Yet all is not wit, though it springs out from her as pointed as a prow. There is wisdom, as final as a proverb...