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...greatest swim sprinter is knock-kneed, rusty-haired Alan Robert Ford. During the past month, his last at Yale, he has taken a final fling at rewriting the record books. Result: eleven new American free-style and backstroke marks. Last week, in the midst of his final Navy (V12) exams, he made the biggest splash of all. Keeping his stroke long and easy (extra effort generates power but not speed, like an automobile in second), Ford couldn't help feeling that he was loafing. Three official A.A.U. watches contradicted him : he had traveled 100 yards in 49.4 seconds, faster...
Jackie Cooper, whose last film (Where Are Your Children?) dealt with juvenile delinquency, acquitted last month of contributing to the delinquency of two teen-aged girls, was "washed out" as a V12 naval trainee at the University of Notre Dame because of scholastic deficiency, got transferred to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station as an apprentice seaman...
Irishman No. 2 is red-haired Robert Kelly, the only real speedster in Notre Dame's backfield. Against Pittsburgh, the rosy-cheeked V12 right halfback handled the ball 14 times, gained 232 yards, raced to four touchdowns (one an 84-yard gallop). Against Tulane, his change-of-pace foxing of the defense enabled him to pull down the first touchdown pass. But Kelly's span at South Bend may be short; he completes his V12 training about...
...artificial right hand. A third, when rolling up his sleeve, is careful to keep four livid scars well covered. These and others in the group get an occasional nod from passing students, but they are different from the rest - proud, reserved, mature, cliquish, hard to know. Coeds and Navy V12 trainees fresh from high school mostly ignore them...
...have to be drafted during the rest of the year. There were other signs that Washington, after two and a half years of war, considered that the U.S. was at last adequately mobilized. The Navy announced that on Nov. 1 it would make a sharp 25% cut in its V12 program...