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...swimming team, as even the most indifferent skimmer of the sports pages may gather, is a pretty good one. The Crimson tankmen haven't dropped a meet in exactly 28 conteats over a period of almost three years, and on the evening in March 1937, when they started their string, they also shattered Yale's 13-year, 163-meet domination of Eastern aquatic competition...
...Clark Hodder would say was, "we deserved to win." But Dewey added, "You can't blame the boys, it's rather a lack of practice that has hampered us. They just haven't had the opportunity to improve." Also the loss of Ayres, first string center due to sickness, and four others who are on probation has made the coaching problem more difficult...
...woefully weak in experience, but worse than that it turned out to be one of the shortest quintets to wear the Crimson in many a year. The Sophomores' one and only seasoned contribution was Homer Peabody, hard-working and aggressive center, who quickly ousted Bill Humes from his first-string pivot post...
Paul Hindemith: String Quartet No. 3 (Coolidge Quartet; Victor: 6 sides). One of the few recorded examples of atonality, this bleak, fleshless, post-War opus is more interesting historically than musically...
...telephone call from the Brazilian Foreign Office at Rio de Janeiro to Lima, Peru, 2,400 miles away, unofficially but effectually wound up the Eighth Pan-American Conference one afternoon last week. The Brazilian delegation at Lima was told it could string along with the 20 other American nations in ratifying the "solidarity" declaration over which the conference had higgled for a fortnight. It was the most noteworthy achievement of the meeting and it did a little more than any agent or agency since Nature to bring the Western Hemisphere together...