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Channel swimming makes no special splash these days, so Australia's Linda McGill, 21, showed up in France with a new gimmick. A free-spirited Olympic swimmer who was banned from competition after riding a bike into the Japanese Imperial moat, Linda announced that she would tame the Channel clad only in goggles and bear grease. When the Channel Swimming Association frosted the idea, Linda added a red one-piecer to her attire and plunged in. She lost her goggles three-quarters of the way to England, then stumbled on the rocks at the finish and badly gashed herself...
Married. Ralph McGill, 69, courtly, compassionately desegregationist publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, columnist and author (The South and the Southerner); and Dr. Mary Lynn Morgan, 46, a children's dentist; he for the second time (his first wife died in 1962), she for the first; in Atlanta...
...Sunday's final, Nayar drew Peter Martin a sophomore at McGill who had defeated Scott Ryan of Navy 3-1 in the morning semis. The young Canadian gave the Indian National Champ his only battle of the tournament before bowing 15-3, 15-12, 12-15, 18-15. Coaches and spectators called it the finest intercollegiate match in memory...
Another one of Harry's admirers on the Constitution, Publisher Ralph McGill, said: "He covered the South honestly and well. There is too little reporting of the type he did. We here miss him as a friend and a reporter of the first rank...
Rick Sterne, Harvard's number two racquetman, played some impressive squash over intersession to reach the finals of the John Jacobs Invitational Tournament at the Harvard Club of New York. The Crimson southpaw advanced through a strong field and beat McGill's Peter Martin in the semi-finals. Martin, it will be remembered, is Canada's intercollegiate champ and gave Harvard's top man, Anil Nayar, a five-game battle in their last meeting. An hour and a half after beating Martin, Sterne had to play the finals, which he lost to Andy Mulver...