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...Clouds. After a couple of unsuccessful attempts at other products (aluminum skiffs, automobile fenders), Douglas decided to sink or swim with aviation, began his comeback with his DC-6, his bigger C124 Globemaster, which can carry everything from trucks and bulldozers to heavy artillery, and AD attack bombers for the Navy...
During the first week the athletic ability of the freshmen will also begin to be tested. Every man must be able to swim 50 yards or he will be assigned to swimming classes until he can. A more vigorous examination is the physical efficiency, or step test...
...Place in the Sun is the story of George Eastman (Montgomery Clift), a poor, ambitious boy who pursues the dream of a Horatio Alger hero to his own undoing. He hitchhikes to the distant city, where his rich uncle manufactures swim suits on the vast scale and cuts a swath in local society. There, from a shipping clerk's job in the factory, George catches tempting glimpses of a life of wealth, glamor and importance...
...Young Foster, as the family called him, read Pilgrim's Progress and Paradise Lost, became a serious stripling who could blandly paraphrase William James to a sobbing nine-year-old sister ("If you cry you will feel bad, and if you feel bad you will cry"). He could swim the 2½ miles across Henderson Bay, and when the family acquired a small sailboat, he became an expert boat handler, weather forecaster, navigator of the coves of eastern Lake Ontario...
...Such giants of swimming as Duke Kahanamoku and Johnny Weissmuller would not look so giant-like today. Dozens of swimmers now can better their Olympic 100-meter times by as much as five seconds. And last week at Detroit, in the National A.A.U. Championships, dozens did. In the 1,500-meters, Hawaii's little Ford Konno, 18 (5 ft. 6½-in., 143 Ibs.), bested Australia's John Marshall by a full pool length (50 meters). Time: 18:46.3. ¶ Calumet Farm added another to its dazzling array of racing wins. Last week in the $75,275 Arlington...