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...zany scoring was a result of several races in which only two men were entered--the Qunkers were so short-handed they often could not find a man to swim for an automatic third. And the final relay--even Crimson diver Clark Peters swam in this one--turned the whole meet into a circus as the two teams finished in a dead heat, something that anyone can tell you never happens in swimming...
...addition, McJennett, who seldom gets a chance to swim against stiff competition, almost pulled the upset of the day in the 200 yard breaststroke. Walt Monahan, who holds the Penn record in the event, barely edged him out for first place in a time of 2:34. Crimson captain Bill Schellstede did not even make the trip...
Before leaving Harvard, every student must swim fifty yards and score the equivalent of 560 on a College Board language exam. Skeptics may perhaps be forgiven for wondering which is more important as education. The swimming test reflects the rough and ready days of Teddy Roosevelt; the language requirement goes back to the golden age when fluent Greek was the hallmark of educated Roman patricians...
...middle-aged suburbanites-one male (Hope), one female (Ball), each happily married to somebody else-who have known and mildly disliked each other for years. Then, accidentally, they find themselves in Acapulco for a two-week vacation, alone together and falling in love. They fight it off, swim it off, laugh it off, in the end settle for a nice, safe, neuter idyl that is both hilarious and painful to watch...
...Lawford helping out by paying the rent on her house and anteing up a $150 monthly allowance. Peter's friends had another explanation. Snapped one: "Peter has always taken care of his mother. She's bugged at him because she's not accepted in the social swim. She's trying to create the picture of a poor old lady living in a Montana lean-to on bacon grease." At week's end, after only two days on the job, Lady Lawford, who had earned not a penny in commissions, quit. Refusing...