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...Alumni have no backstroker to keep up with Bill Drucker or Dick Harris for that matter, so both the medley and the backstroke events should go to the Varsity. In the breast stroke Varsity swimmers Max Krans and Reg Wilcox will be pushed to the limit by Grog Jameson...
...Kraus, Sandy Houston, and Roger Willcox are the breast-strokers, and hero the picture is not quite so rosy. Houston is at his best for a 100 yards, not in the long 200-yard puli. Roger Willcox was improving at the end of last year and may continue to do so, but the butterfly division is still a starless one. Bob White tried his hand at breast-stroking last year and may return to the tank if others fail to improve as the season gets under way. White is shaping up as a good free-style prospect and will probably...
...mice with certain coal-tar substances and synthetic chemicals. The great research problem now is to grow tumors in mice with extracts from human cancer victims. Six weeks ago Dr. John Frederick Menke of Stanford University Hospital announced that he had injected mice with fat-soluble essences from human breast cancers. For the first time in cancer history, he claimed, two of the mice had grown tumors. But his experiments have not yet been confirmed...
...spot in the troubled Orient, where a sergeant's blunder might throw the nation into war with Japan. In such spots, the Marine Corps' mercenaries do the job as they have been taught to do it. Their reward will be another campaign ribbon to pin on the breast of their blue tunics...
What the eagle is to the U. S., the quetzal is to Guatemala. The quetzal (rhymes with pretzel) is a rare, lovely bird with bright green plumage, blood-red breast, fuzzy topknot, yard-long tail feathers. Quetzal is also the name of the Guatemalan money unit, and the bird's graven image appears on the national seal, coins, stamps. The quetzal was venerated by the ancient Aztecs, Toltecs and Mayas as a colleague of the plumed serpent god, Quetzalcoatl (rhymes with pretzelcowatle), god of metallurgy, agriculture, wisdom, health. Only priests and nobles could wear quetzal plumes in their headdress...