Word: shelleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tense and terribly serious, the tall, tanned young (17) swimmer on the starting block took a couple of deep breaths, shook her head and shoulders with a nervous shrug and coiled into her starting crouch. At the gun, Shelley Mann, an Arlington, Va. schoolgirl, lit out in an angry, ungraceful crawl. Four laps and 58.7 seconds later, she slapped the pool wall, winner of the 100-yard final at the National A.A.U. Senior Women's Indoor Championships...
Worry Wart. As the championships got underway last week in Daytona Beach's Welch Municipal Pool, the sleek-muscled star of the Walter Reed Swim Club* had more reason to collapse than to set records. All night Shelley Mann (daughter of an electrical engineer) had lain awake worrying. Even the presence of Tommy, her good-luck Teddy bear, had not lulled her to sleep. In the morning, she ground out a fast 58.9-second qualifying dash for the 100-yd. freestyle. Later, she led her qualifying heat once again as she clocked 5:31.8 in the punishing...
After a light lunch-rare filet mignon, peas, fruit compote, tea-Shelley tried once more to sleep. This time, in an earnest effort to relax, she read a few chapters of her favorite book: Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking (see RELIGION). Refreshed, Shelley sprinted to the 100-yd. title, and a short half-hour later she won the 400-yd. medley championship as well...
Last week, Shelley went on to take the 250-yd. freestyle and help her teammates to the 400-yd. medley relay title. Army Lt. Betty Mullen, oldest of the Reed girls and a freestyle specialist before she swam for Tinkham, set a sure world record in the 100-yd. butterfly (1:05.4). With the whole team pitching in, the Walter Reed Swim piled up 95 points for their third championship in a row. Marveled a rival coach: "A crazy bunch of churning machines...
...late King had actually ruled over his country for only a few years. For most of his reign he was virtually a prisoner of the powerful Rana nobles, who held despotic power over Nepal as its hereditary Prime Ministers. While the King stayed at home in his palace reading Shelley, the Ranas ran his country with an iron hand, indulging their taste for bizarre ornamentation by filling their 30-odd marble palaces with fancy clocks and comical distorting mirrors imported from Coney Island. In 1950, fired by neighboring India, a revolution at last unseated the despotic Ranas, and Tribhubana...