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This year, after two years of League championships and records, Coach Hal Uien and his boys may have to face the inevitable. Of the group of phenomenally fast swimmers captained by Charles G. Hutter '38, only one, Jim Curwen '40, remains. Most of the Old Guard have graduated and Willie Kendall has abandoned college leaving two intercollegiate records behind him. Uien, the sports-writers, and the fans are new forced to get accustomed to "normal" times. Only within the grasp of scholastically ineligible Curwen is the possibility of smashing a record in the Hutter story-book fashion...
...determined that the finish of tomorrow's meet will find Coach Ulen smlling. If a Harvard team has to have a 28-meet string broken, it's certain that either Yale or Princeton will be slightly more welcome as breakers than upstart Brown. A consoling thought for Coach Hal is that of all the teams he has tutored either at Harvard or Syracuse not one has ever lost to Brown...
...Coach Hal Ulen's other choices for the hotly contested positions are Jack Waldron for the No. 2 breastroke post and Lonnie Stowell for the 50-yard sprint. Max Kraus will swim the butterfly medley and 200 events while Art Bosworth will take care of the medley and 150 backstroke. Bob White may replace Ed Hewitt as No. 2 440 man. From all indications the meet will be the twenty-seventh straight for the Crimson
Topper Takes a Trip (United Artists- Hal Roach). For George Kerby (Gary Grant) and his wife, Marion (Constance Bennett), the consequences of an inexcusable automobile smashup are that, as ghosts, they gain the ability to vanish or materialize whenever they like. In Topper (1937), Marion and George proved themselves indefatigable posthumous cutups: to save their friend Cosmo Topper (Roland Young) from his fussy wife (Billie Burke), Marion materialized herself in Cosmo's hotel room at an improper moment. In Topper Takes a Trip, the sequel, Topper and his wife set out to get a divorce, but neither of them...
...Coach Hal Ulen will put his Varsity mermen against Greenwood Memorial tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock, seeking his twenty-sixth straight victory for the Crimson swimmers...