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...Grover entered Harvard in 1946 after military service at a time when freshmen could compete on varsity teams. He was not good enough to swim with the varsity, however, but became captain of the freshman squad apparently because his 24 years impressed his younger classmates...
During the season, Grover compiled a mediocre record as a 440-man and an excellent reputation for telling coaches and team members exactly how things should be run. When he acted even more strongly on this reputation upon his return to College as a sophomore, he was requested to betake himself from the pool and never return...
This climax to his apocryphally "starry" Harvard swimming career came just after he had self-righteously refuted all doubts as to his amateur status. During the previous summer of 1947, a gentleman with somewhat the same name as "Charles Grover" won the professional long distance endurance swimming championship at Lake George. But when his coaches queried him on the subject, Grover disclaimed the similarity. The similarity later proved to be a case of identity...
...Grover could now return to long distance swimming with a freer style. He had begun after he joined the Navy in 1940 in time to be aboard the battleship U.S.S. West Virginia in Pearl Harbor when the Japanese struck...
...Grover placed second in Rhode Island's Matanuck Beach-Block Island race in 1950 and fifth in a 1954 endurance swim at Atlantic City, N.J., in 1954. His interest in long distance swimming grew almost maniacal, so much so that it developed into an obsession which dominated his thinking and became almost a release from worldly problems...