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...swimmer was ever more photographed than Mrs. Lotty Moore Schoemmel, fat water-woman. Last week her sister, Mrs. Grace Moore Shaw, told...
...swimming pool at Miami Beach, Mrs. Lottie Moore Schoemmel, kept alive by tea, oranges, boullion, sandwiches, omelets and coffee, swam for 32 hours, breaking by an hour a world's record that had stood for 47 years...
...upper end to Fort William Henry pergola at the lower end. That meant between 15 and 30 hours in cold water nowhere over 60 degrees, in many spots 45 degrees. Among them were Ernst Vierkoetter, German conqueror of the English Channel, William Albert Ericson (the Bronx), Mrs. Lottie Moore Schoemmel (the Bronx swimming teacher), Lucy A. F. Dimond (Brooklyn), Paul Chotteau (Manhattan) and Edward F. Keating (Manhattan). This last is a 24-year-old who learned to swim near a pier in the East River. Unlike the others above listed, he was not considered a prominent contender. He lacked...
...most of the best distance swimmers in the U. S. had taken his dare. There was Henry F. Sullivan who swam the English Channel in 1923, and Clarabelle Barrett, the Pelham, N. Y., schoolmistress who stayed in the water of the English Channel 24 hours, and Mrs. Charlotte Moore Schoemmel (Manhattan favorite), very greasy, and Jean McKenzie who also refused to wear any bathing suit. There had been some trouble about these nude ones-preacher-men declared that, if the bodies of these athletes were exposed to view, there must be something indecent about the race...
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