Word: swimmer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Powers has lived up to his name in the free-style events, usually the 100, and seems to be the type of swimmer who will end up equally proficient in all distances free-style. Bosworth, former Exeter star, has a graceful, effortless backstroke second only to Graham, Cummin '38, Varsity flash. "Bozzie": usually is entered in the 50-yard free-style as well, and swims the event substantially under 25 seconds...
Tarzan's Revenge (Twentieth Century-Fox). Mrs. Eleanor Holm Jarrett, champion backstroke swimmer,* is the current cinemate of a new and mightily thoracic Tarzan, blending with his eerie ee-ya-ee call the chewing-gum flavor of her pronounced Brooklyn accent. This new Tarzan is lean, 6-ft. 2-in., Olympic Champion Glenn Morris, summoned to the role to replace Johnny Weissmuller. Actor Morris, who heroically combines the facial qualities of Broadway's Burgess Meredith and Hollywood's Harpo Marx, has the miming ability of neither. What he has is the 1936 Olympic decathlon title. His costume...
...free-style have been depleted by Delvalles' loss and Eral Wilson's leaving school, giving Charles Smith, a 2:25 man in the 220 and a comparable 440 swimmer, Bob Chapman, the task of holding up the distance departments...
...there's one man who doesn't expect to be taken in by wild dreams of success. Coach Hal Ulen is taking particular pains this year to keep the Crimson heads below the swelling point. Not that every Yale meet swimmer isn't justified in running around muttering "We beat Yale" to himself. It isn't every day that Harvard is able to break a string of 163 victories. But Ulen is watching out for over-confidence. He's got a team just now that's tops, and you can be pretty sure that he's going to break...
...pool, they all know he's good. He beat Jameson in the Alumni meet December 16. Of course, Jamie was out of condition, but the time for the breast was 1:07, which is not to be sneered at when the season's just beginning and the swimmer has just changed over to breast-stroke...