Word: swimmer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Julitz, a good swimmer, led the way. He had not been present four months earlier when a battalion order was issued forbidding training troops to ford the Iller, and no one present thought to inform him of it. At midstream Julitz went under; only his helmet was visible. Within seconds the Iller's treacherous currents had caught the rest of the platoon...
After the first angry blast at Dr. Berger's claims, a handful of sports figures-a few American pro footballers, a former Olympic swimmer from Australia, a Canadian team physician-frankly admitted that the doctor had a point. When he was playing for the Detroit Lions, recalled Quarterback Tom Dublinski, who later switched to the Toronto Argonauts, he once took a pill that pepped him up too much. "It hopped me up to high heaven," said Dublinski with a shudder. "That's no good-a quarterback has to be steady...
...department-store salesgirl, Dawn Fraser wondered this week how she would ever pay for a period of necessary workouts in tropical Townsville. "Just a little of that ?50,000 the A.S.U. has earmarked for training would be a big help," she admitted. But like the dedicated Aussie swimmer she is she added: "I will arrive in Hawaii fit, even if I also happen to be broke...
...Crimson's Tom Cochrane was scratched from the event with some difficulty. The NCAA has a ruling that once a swimmer is scratched from one event, he is automatically scratched from all other events. But freshman coach Bill Brooks raced on ahead of the team and was able to outtalk the officials' objections that a scratching would overbalance the heats...
...third sailed with Conquistador Pánfilo de Narváez unsuccessful expedition to Florida. The current and 17th Marquis de Portago does his dangerous living in the world of sports. At 28. lean and swarthy Alfonso de Portago has been a champion jai-alai player, a fine swimmer, a superb polo player, a leading gentleman jockey, an Olympic bobsled star, and is one of the best sports-car racers in the world. When he rolls his sleek, shovel-nosed 3.5-liter Ferrari up to the starting line for the Florida International twelve-hour Grand Prix of Endurance at Sebring...