Word: traver
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Corris' showdown with Buckley was postponed because of the Yalie's illness, but that didn't deter the Crimson record holder from lowering his Harvard record in the 200-yard breaststroke to 1:15.2. Corris followed the Blue's Dick Traver's torrid 1:02.8 pace for the first 100 and glided into the lead and won easily, relaxing over the last 50. If Buckley swims in the Easterns next weekend, he could well receive the surprise Corris was planning to spring on him Saturday...
LAUGHING WHITEFISH by Robert Traver. 312 pages. McGraw-Hill...
...says former Michigan Supreme Court Justice John Voelker, "is the ledger in which are recorded our deepest tribal memories." Justice Voelker extracted a bloody page and, under the pseudonym of Robert Traver, translated it into Anatomy of a Murder. In his current novel, set in Michigan's rugged Upper Peninsula in the 1870s, he tells the faintly fictionalized story of a Chippewa Indian girl named Laughing Whitefish, whose ignorant, much-married father has been bilked of a fortune by a powerful iron-mining corporation. An idealistic, inexperienced young lawyer undertakes to sue for her inheritance and, incidentally, to establish...
Fowler's best chance for a win is in the 100-yard breaststroke, a distance at which he posted a 1:01.9 time in a relay split this winter. Yale's Dick Traver is expected to give the Crimson sophomore his roughest competition, though there is a possibility of some unknown superstars at the unusual distance...
...Hornstein's Boy, Traver...