Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old Editor Robert K. Heimann: "In thumbing through [other magazines] I've often found myself skipping-the solid reading matter . . ." What text there was in Heritage could be skipped also. Example: "A nation's heritage is its people-'the fellers' in for a river swim, a girl waiting for a train...
...Norris will swim his specialty, the quarter-mile, during the day's festivities. He looks certain to win. In the dive, Gordon Weir will back Tom Drohan, who will be making his last appearance for Harvard. For the 400-yard freestyle relay, a quartet will be placed together out of Shop Brown, Mort Hull, Bill MacVicar, Bob Burke, Bob Lang, and Art Sicular...
Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, veteran newspaperwoman (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Phoenix Arizona Times), currently collaborating on a radio commentary with her mother, leaped joyously back into the publishing swim as editor of the Woman, a national monthly magazine...
...Wood will oppose M.I.T.'s best swimmer, Pitler, in the 220-yard back-stroke, and Chuck Hoolzer and Larry Ward will swim against Tech's Polletier in the 200-yard breaststroke, the two events in which M.I.T. claims its greatest strength...
...sprint division, the only other place where M.I.T. has shown any speed, Shep Brown, Martin Hull, and Bob Burke, captain of last year's Freshmen, will swim against Tech's Edgar and Conlin in the 50 and 100-yard freestyle events...