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...uncomfortable, truth about a team's long winning streak is that some day it has to be broken. Harvard's varsity swimming team faced that truth Wednesday night and qualified it the hard way by one point...
...Wednesday evening a strong Brown swimming contingent succeeded in shattering a Crimson winning streak that had extended to twenty-eight meets, and the audience of mostly Brown supporters that packed the pool balcony in the Indoor Athletic Building went properly berserk with joy. Bruin Coach Leo Barry's bald pate glistened with glory as he cavorted in the pool after his team had celebrated the victory by the traditional coach-ducking rite. George Gibbons, Bob Schaper, and Matt Soltysiak, the Bruin heroes, were mobbed by wildly enthusiastic teammates, and a squadron of reporters was besieging everyone with questions. Through...
What interested drama-loving fans was the possibility that Coach Crisler, who had tried and failed to break the long run of Michigan victories while he was head coach at Minnesota in 1930-31, might now, in his reversed position, break the four-year winning streak of the college he once coached...
Playwright Sherwood's interpretation is the child of the hour. Psychologically his Lincoln, beautifully played by Canadian-born Actor Raymond Massey, is familiar enough: a salty, sinewy smalltown fellow* cursed with a submerged streak of loneliness and bitterness, plagued by an unsympathetic wife and haunted by an unshakable sense of doom. But Sherwood's chief interest in Lincoln is spiritual, not psychological: it consists of vividly, though not altogether convincingly, tracing Lincoln's growth from an indolent, unambitious "artful dodger" who wanted to be left alone, to a suddenly aroused and embattled champion of human rights...
...young Vander Meer, who proved he was no flash in the pan by continuing his winning streak until he had nine victories in a row, was by last week accustomed to the spotlight. With more poise than many a seasoned oldtimer, he stood up to American League sluggers like Jimmy Foxx, Charley Gehringer, Joe Di Maggio, Joe Cronin, Bill Dickey, faced only ten batters, required only 31 pitches, allowed only one hit (single). With Pitcher Bill Lee of the Cubs, the National Leaguers, who scored a run in the very first inning, continued to humble the highly favored Americans...