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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year ago last fall Bill entered Ohio State and paced the team. Last spring he enlisted in the Navy. At Great Lakes, he is one of 60 instructors giving daily swimming lessons to 32,000 landlubbing recruits. His commanding officer, Lieut. Walter N. Colbath, 1928 Olympic diver and roommate of Johnny Weissmuller, has no time for coaching. But he has watched Smith enough to state flatly that he is "a hell of a lot faster than Weissmuller in any event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Swimming Sailor | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

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