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...pounds heavier (168), and a year wiser about the Channel than when she tried and failed last summer (TIME, Sept. 19, 1949). A little before 3 one morning last week, Shirley May, well-coated with sheep grease, waded into the water at Cap Gris Nez and struck out for Dover, 19 miles away...
...third new trustee is Mrs. Carl J. Gilbert, of Dover, also a Radcliffe graduate. She has worked in the Research Laboratory of the Harvard School of Public Health and has been active in work on cancer in the Vincent Memorial Hospital Laboratory...
...John's Evangelical and Reform Church Dover, Ohio...
...green bathing suit strode down to the beach at Cap Gris Nez, France. Well displayed across her ample bosom were the words "Black Magic." She dunked a toe in the icy waters, announced that she was not really scared, and struck out in the general direction of Dover, England. For fame, for fortune, and for Scripps-Howard and United Artists, grease-coated, 17-year-old Shirley May France of Somerset, Mass. was trying to swim the English Channel...
...pints of soup and coffee doled out by a friend in a fishing boat. En route, carrier pigeons released by the escort winged their way back to France to keep Mme. du Moulin posted. Just under 22 hours after starting, Fernand scraped his nose on the pebbles of a Dover beach and hauled himself ashore...