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...Only eight days after she lowered the women's 440-yd., free-style swimming record to 5:07, Australia's Lorraine Crapp, 17, put on her "old lucky swim suit" (the frayed shoulder straps held together with a piece of string) and competed against the clock in a Sydney saltwater pool. Result: a new world's record for the 880-yd. freestyle: 10:36.4. On the way, she churned past the 800-meter flags in a record-breaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Jan. 23, 1956 | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

Dyer and either Macky or Lind will swim a second time for the Crimson in the 100, and Winthrop will come back in the backstroke, accompanied by Paul Santmire...

Author: By Thomas Linden, | Title: Swimming Team Favored in Meet Against Big Red | 1/6/1956 | See Source »

...swim, team we wish a fifty-yard pool, and an electrical bulwark like Yale's seems only right. After a decade of delay, it would also be nice if the HAA brought the gallery of team portraits up to date. (That 's what those empty wood frames at the end of the pool...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 12/21/1955 | See Source »

...summer Saturday down under, 5,000,000 Australians, many in sport clothes, swim suits and fishing boots, went to the polls as the law requires. Within hours after the polls closed, Labor Leader Herbert Evatt sourly acknowledged defeat: "The government's plan to sneak back into power apparently succeeded . . ." Actually, rather than sneaking back, Prime Minister Robert Menzies' Liberal-Country Party coalition won a House of Representatives majority twice as large as its previous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Sneak Victory | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...season's finale with Yale on March 10 is not carried, Kalmus added, the station will substitute the Harvard-Yale swim meet and basketball game scheduled for the same day at New Haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHRB Plans Broadcasts Of Varsity Hockey Games | 12/7/1955 | See Source »

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