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...under the sea for subjects. One such is Olive Earle, whose more decorative paintings of its teeming and extraordinary life were shown last week in Brooklyn. Her Bermuda group contained an oil canvas of the strange Deep Sea Squirrel Fish; from California, she had retrieved Kelp at Santa Catalina; her water colors included a portrait of Sea Anemones, bending in a warm current, and a cool atmospheric painting, Color under...
...swimmers, most of them naked, all of them thick with grease, plunged into Lake Ontario, in a 21-mi. race from Toronto, over a triangular course, to Toronto. They thrashed, kicked and ploughed the water. Soon the strongest left the milling mob and George Young, hero of the Catalina Island swim, was leading the marathon. Accidents happened, men and women were doubled up with cramps, weaklings withdrew from the chill waters; the drowning were saved in the early 'miles, and the field thinned. After four miles a baker, kneading the water as the kneaded dough in his little bake shop...
...lifeboat on a yacht belonging to Novelist Zane Grey. They put masts on it and called it a yawl, the Grey Ghost. Fishermen Eli Kelly and James McKinley sailed it out in December and were crippled by a storm. Before the Grey Ghost drifted ashore on Santa Catalina Island, Fishermen McKinley was dead and Fisherman Kelly was, by agreement, a cannibal, still alive but half-crazed (TIME, Jan. 3, 10). Fisherman George McShallis of San Pedro, Calif., salvaged the Grey Ghost and sailed to San Clemente to ply his trade...
...woman, momentarily dazed by exertion, then remembered she was Mrs. Myrtle Huddleston, proprietor of a Long Beach, Calif., beauty parlor. Four months ago she could not swim a stroke. Now, after lessons from admirers who had seen she was designed to swim by Nature, she had almost swum the Catalina Channel. She began again her laborious strokes . . . reached the oily shore swells . . . was swept toward a ragged reef . . . caught her footing, stood up, collapsed on her face. . . . The men hoisted her into the rowboat. Her time was 20 hr., 42 min. She had eaten nothing...
Long Beach, Calif., looked forward to new beauty treatments: "The Huddleston Grease Pack," "The Catalina Clip," "The Huddle" (Shampoo...