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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...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: Yale Swim Sweep Rolls On; Crimson 2nd in Team Score | 3/21/1953 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: Yale Swim Sweep Rolls On; Crimson 2nd in Team Score | 3/21/1953 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Crime in California | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: Swimmers Top Army, 64-20, For 5th Consecutive Victory | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

Back-stroker Don Mulvey remained undefeated and missed breaking a Crimson record by one-tenth of a second...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers, Five Lose; Swimmers Salvage Victory | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

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