Word: lumsden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost ten hours Toronto's Cliff Lumsden and California's Tom Park swam shoulder to shoulder around Absecon Island (N.J.), fighting for first place in Atlantic City's 26-mile saltwater marathon. They churned to the finish line like sprinters, but as Lumsden touched out Tom Park, the fickle crowd was looking elsewhere. Just ahead of the two men, Denmark's beautiful Greta Anderson, 29, first of the women competitors (who started half an hour before the men) was struggling back into the top of her bathing suit so that she could leave the water. Patient...
...THELMA LUMSDEN CLAFLIN Upland, Calif...
...more than proper pay for an expert; twice before she had won more than $500 by a special system of picking the teams. But in Bournemouth next day, a nonexpert got equally good results by "just picking them at random." On a bet of $1.50, ex-Teacher Ernest Albert Lumsden, 71, also...
Charwoman Guest and ex-Teacher Lumsden are only two of the 10 million Britons (one in every three adults) who send off their pennies and sixpences each week to "have a flutter" on some 100 football pools. The average weekly bet is low (about 50?), the chances of winning about one in 30.* The payoffs run from a half crown to the maximum of ?75,000. But because of the get-rich-quick lure and the fascination of working out "the perfect system," playing the pools has be come a national gamble that keeps families all over Britain busy...