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Godwin and Walker obtain their very bright, very brief flash by discharging 38,000 volts through a vacuum tube filled with mercury vapor at one-twentieth of atmospheric pressure. The voltage source is an X-ray apparatus and the current is stored in a 20-unit Leyden jar condenser...
...typical star who has been developed under Ulen's tutelage has been the work-horse type, not the natural, born swimming flash. He brought Hutter's 100-yard time down from 57 seconds in his Freshman year to a brilliant, consistent 52 seconds in the Junior and Senior years. He converted Dario Berizzi from a mediocre distance man to a crack butterfly breastroker. He helped Don Barker wend his way from the ranks of the House tankmen to eventually become a 23 second...
...while 60 candidates for the 1942 team began the season's training presided over by Coach Larry A. (Pete) Peterson. The Varsity begins its season on December 17 when it will meet a formidable Alumni team including Charlie Hutter, last year's captain and star, possibly Bill Kendall, Australian flash, and backstroker Graham Cummin, former intercollegiate record-holder...
...Italy. Agency: the Ministry of Popular Culture. Reason: they do not contribute to "exaltation of the imperial, Fascist and Mussolinian tone in which we live." Italian editors, spurred by the new Fascist drive for "racism," have also been inking over the hair of blond U. S. heroes like Flash Gordon and Joe Palooka...
...ordered the first of the bag of tricks which the elements had necessitated keeping tied up to that point. He faked a kick, drew the whole Eli line in, and then shot a diagonal pass to Green, who was finally pulled down on the 40. A play later and "Flash" Macdonald was off on a tackle slant. Picking up speed despite the field, he went deep into enemy territory and was finally forced out on the ten-yard line...