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...Britain. Last year a 31-year-old stenographer from San Diego named Florence Chadwick topped the Ederle record by swimming the distance in 13 hr. 20 min. (TIME, Aug. 21, 1950). But until last week no woman, and only nine men, had ever swum the Channel eastward from Dover to Cap Gris-Nez, the 21-mile stretch which, like a cat, hates to be stroked the wrong...
...eleven weeks Florence Chadwick waited in Dover to try. In a little seaside hotel she fortified her 140 Ibs. on a starchy English diet, gobbled calorie-packed fudge and ice cream between meals, swam three or four hours every day. After an evening of gin rummy, she turned in promptly at 9:30. As the weeks wore on, with no slackening of the rough waters, Florence would stare gloomily out the window at the spiteful grey...
...ELEANOR G. PRICE Dover...
Florence Chadwlck, 32, who set a new women's record last year when she swam the English Channel in 13 hrs. 20 min., arrived in Dover to start training for another try. This time she hoped to be the first woman to do it the hard way, from Dover to Cap Gris...
After degrees are awarded, Alumni will be served a buffet luncheon in the Yard, while the class of '51 returns to the Houses to receive diplomas. In the afternoon President Conant and Governor Dover will speak at an Alumni Association meeting. Three top honorary degree winners make their speeches at this time...