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Last Sunday, CBS' Omnibus dropped in on Esther Williams, at the Yale pool, he less. They had extra special lights for the TV cameras because the pool hasn't any windows. No Yalies were in the seats. Omnibus couldn't have them hooting and hollering at Esther Williams in a medium-low cut spangled bathing suit...

Author: By L. THOMAS Linden, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 11/3/1955 | See Source »

Actually, Esther Williams started out wearing old-fashioned bathing suits, one on top of the other. Then she began to peel. She displayed everything from the first bathing costume ever created, which looked like a snow suit, down to a bikini. She didn't wear the bikini. She palmed...

Author: By L. THOMAS Linden, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 11/3/1955 | See Source »

...medley relay, they have a four-stroke one, with both the butterfly and breast strokes. So Yale set the record in it. It wasn't a fluke. Yale is good. But the event is so new that almost any team could swim it and set a record. Even before Esther Williams got the times from the judges, she said. "The old record was ..." The whole Yale team applauded. But Miss Williams misread the times...

Author: By L. THOMAS Linden, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 11/3/1955 | See Source »

...Then Esther hitched up her suit straps and beat three Yalies in synchonized swimming (at which she is excellent...

Author: By L. THOMAS Linden, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 11/3/1955 | See Source »

...Esther Williams' pictures are generally just so much water over the dame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter, Oct. 31, 1955 | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

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