Word: swimmer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lived a cocoonlike existence, with little knowledge of people and events in the outside world. He has too many servants but he lives simply. His great handicap is that all his life things have been spoon-fed to him, including education. He is an excellent horseman, a good swimmer, and very good at table tennis. He smokes moderately and drinks little. I think he has a good capacity for alcohol, but as he is the crown prince, it is perhaps just as well that he does not drink too much...
...their boat to fire, the recoil threw him overboard. The boat rolled over, stunning Murphy. As the two men floundered atop the submerged boat 350 yards offshore, an Austrian freelance photographer, Inge Morath, spotted them through her telephoto lens and went to the rescue. A handsome brunette and champion swimmer, Inge jettisoned her cameras and chopped out to the two exhausted men. There she resourcefully unhooked her bra, flung one strap to each man, towed them behind her as she breast-stroked safely ashore...
Without Hammond, Bill Schellstede will solo the butterfly for the Crimson against Columbia's best swimmer, Joe Goldenberg, a 2:29 man for the 200-yard distance. In the sprints, the varsity's Bill Rose and Dave Ottaway will face close competition from Ron Previ, who swims the 50 in 24 seconds and the 100 in 54 seconds...
...stern taskmaster. Kiphuth demands all-out effort, is apt to roar at a swimmer dawdling through his paces: "If you want to take a bath, get a cake of soap." During a hopping exercise, the coach scowled scornfully at a boy who had twisted an ankle, barked: "Get up and hop on the good one." But his swimmers like him. Says one: "A wishy-washy coach who sympathizes with you is no damn good...
...Perilman in the 100-yard butterfly, Gary Pildner in the 200-yard backstroke, and Bob Komenda in the 440-yard free-style all performed well enough to win rather easily. Komenda finished two laps ahead of one M.I.T. swimmer...