Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them were acting like frightened minnows. . . . They twisted and turned like the little boats in a pleasure pool on a bank holiday...
Died. Gloria Gould Bishop Barker, 37, glamor girl of the '20s; by drowning in her swimming pool; near Phoenix, Ariz. A granddaughter of Financier Jay Gould, daughter of Famed Stage Beauty Edith Kingdon Gould, she gave a dance recital at Carnegie Hall when she was 16. She married her first husband at 17, as a playfully ambitious young heiress. Served as a professional greeter at a Broadway movie house and otherwise attracted attention with interviews on marriage, motherhood and careers for women. She deserted society in 1930 after her second marriage, to Contractor Walter McFarlane Barker...
...given for an hour of swimming without calisthenics, as was the case last term. Clarence B. Van Wyck, Secretary to the Physical Education Department, said that the program was changed because of the confusion caused by having two different classes, one upstairs, and the other down in the pool...
Long shots: Lieut. Governor Rodes Kirby Myers, 43, who, like his friend Senator A. B. ("Happy") Chandler, owns a swimming pool given him by Ben H. Collings, Louisville contractor. Way behind: John J. Thobe, 67, a bearded perennial, who has been running unsuccessfully but doggedly for office for 43 years...
...Oakes got hopping mad at Canadian taxes, announced that he was moving to Nassau because it would tax him only 5%. There he built a glass & stucco mansion around a saltwater swimming pool. He bought the Bahamas' largest hotel and Nassau's water works, built a private airport, rebuilt the Bahamas Country Club, got himself elected to the Bahamas House of Assembly. For his contributions to St. George's Hospital in London, Oakes was made a baronet...