Word: yd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago's Town Club pool she did it. The first woman ever to win the Sullivan Award (as outstanding U.S. amateur athlete of 1944), Ann Curtis was up to her free-style best. Swimming more skillfully the farther she swam, the San Francisco blonde won the 220-yd. final in second gear, had even less trouble taking the 440. Her rival in, the 100-yd. dash was beauteous, brunette Champion Brenda Helser. But Ann's single-mindedness paid off: she sprinted from behind the final lap and finished 18 inches ahead...
...world's swiftest sprint swimmer lost in the National A.A.U. Indoor championships. In the 100-yd. freestyle, record-smashing Columbia Midshipman Alan Ford (TIME, Feb. 26) tried hard to shake off lean-jawed Specialist 2/C Wally Ris, onetime mechanical engineering student at the University of Illinois. He got no farther than a half-stroke ahead in three laps. Then they both flubbed the all-important last turn, squared away even for the final spurt. Whispered 21-year-old Wally to himself: "Beat him . . . beat him." He did-by a touch, and in New York A.C. pool-record time...
Loose-shouldered Ensign Adolf Kiefer, who began breaking world backstroke records ten years ago, helped Wally Ris build up a top-heavy 46-point team total for the Bainbridge (Md.) Naval Training Center. With strokes to spare, Kiefer copped his pet 150-yd. backstroke event and the 300-yd. individual medley. Cracked 26-year-old Adolf Kiefer to himself when he banged his funny bone against the side of the pool on the last leg of the backstroke: "What am I doing in here anyway? I'm too old for this sort of thing...
...third reason is the weapons with which the Japs packed Iwo. The beaches were not so easily defended as the rocks and ravines to the north. Yet an incomplete count on the 4th Division's 1,500-yd. beach alone scored ten blockhouses, seven artillery positions, more than 50 pillboxes (the total of pillboxes on Iwo will run into the thousands). The Japs had planted many mints-more than they had in all the rest of their lost islands...
...West Point, too, the Cadets were unbeatable. The all-conquering Army swimmers, who snapped Yale's great 66-meet winning streak last month, sank the Navy, 44-to-31. Ray Thayer, an exponent of power rather than form, swam on the winning relay, took the 50-yd. sprint and cracked the Academy pool record with...