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Back-stroker Don Mulvey broke a Harvard record in the time trials yesterday afternoon, and then broke it again in the 200-yard finals, but he finished third in the heat. Eli Dick Thomas won in 2:07.3 minutes, and a new EISL and Harvard Pool record, and one-tenth of a second shy of the intercollegiate mark, while Army's Pete Wittereid trailed him in 2:13.2. Mulvey covered the distance in 2:14.3 minutes, eclipsing the record of 2:14.7 minutes he set earlier in the day. This, in turn, bettered John Steinhart's 1951 record...
...yard freestyle was all Yale's. Eli Wayne Moore edged out team-mate Jimmy McLane by one-tenth of a second to take first place in 2:08.3 minutes. Frank Chamberlain and Marty Smith took third and fourth to give Yale a clean sweep of the top places...
...adults. Even when the crime is clearer, as in cases involving children, it is often hushed up. But in recorded court cases, the investigators could find no evidence of a great wave of sex crime, or that "sex fiends" were everywhere on the prowl. Serious sex offenses made up one-tenth of all the criminal cases tried in the superior courts. The fact finders considered the commoner misdemeanors (such as exhibitionism and peeping) as "socially offensive but nondangerous...
...fell in the 150-yard individual medley, the most exciting event of the meet. Charlie Egan, a body length behind and in last place as he went into the final 50-yard sprint, overtook his opponents and won by half a length. His time of 1:38.7 eclipses by one-tenth of a second the record formerly held by Sandler and himself...
Back-stroker Don Mulvey remained undefeated and missed breaking a Crimson record by one-tenth of a second...