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Nearly 150 of the nation's top mermen, representing 29 different colleges, have entered the meet. Such is the caliber of every swimmer who has been entered that it is virtually impossible to foresee, with any degree of accuracy, exactly who will be the individual star or what records will be broken during the two-day competition...

Author: By Burton VAN Vort, | Title: HARVARD PLAYS HOST TO TOPFLIGHT COLLEGE MERMEN IN NATIONAL MEET TODAY, TOMORROW | 3/27/1942 | See Source »

Probably the best swimmer of all on the Bulldog's powerhouse is Captain Howle Johnson. A free styler, he specializes in winning the 100 and 200 yard races in addition to helping his teammates take any 400 yard relay they feel like winning...

Author: By Burton VAN Vort, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 3/12/1942 | See Source »

...yard Relay-Won by Harvard (ball, Stocker, Sceery, Downing), Columbia disqualified because second swimmer failed to touch the wall on a turn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY TANKMEN SUBMERGE COLUMBIA SWIMMERS 53 TO 22 | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

...group of sailors was standing in the stern of the W. D. Anderson, chewing the fat about foreign ports. One of them, Frank Leonard Terry, was a strong swimmer; he used to be a lifeguard. When the torpedo hit, he jumped overboard at once, without a life belt, while the rest hesitated. A billowing tower of fire and smoke swallowed the ship, and fire spread over the water. In the icy water Sailor Terry stripped off his clothes and swam hard for an hour, to get away from the fire. He could feel the heat of it on the back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Ducks & Men | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

...football and track star in high school, an All-American swimmer at Brown University. Now 33, and the father of two small boys, he was rector of St. John's Episcopal Church at Lowell, Mass, when he decided to join the Army. When first he went to Benning, he was lucky to get a dozen men for Sunday service. Now he draws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Paratroop Parson | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

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