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Harvard started the meet auspiciously. The medley relay team of John Bragg, Corris, Chalfie and Shrout swam to within an impressive 5 seconds of the school record...
...city of Wuhan, the 72-year-old "greatest leader of the people of the world" had trod "firmly" down the gangplank of a motor launch in the Yangtze, "with glowing ruddy cheeks and in buoyant spirits." There, in the presence of "tens of thousands," Mao Tse-tung swam and floated nine miles downstream in 65 minutes, talking politics at times with a provincial party secretary and even pausing to give a young lady swimmer a lesson in the backstroke...
...like a scene from an early novel by Evelyn Waugh. An intellectual dandy, hardly a year out of Oxford and already weary of the world, dashed off a suicide note in classical Greek and then, as a mauve moon rose, swam wistfully out to sea. Not far out, however, his reveries of picturesque quietus were interrupted by a slight sting on his shoulder. A jellyfish! Shuddering in revulsion, he floundered to shore, jumped into his clothes and hurried home...
Swimmers competed at the Radcliffe Pool during open hours, entering as many laps as they could swim toward their House total. Over the five days, 115 swimmers swam a total of over 62 miles. Freshman Anne Aylward registered the highest individual total, logging 416 laps...
...Angly, Jane Mansfield, Ginny Storrs, and Eleanor Thomas swam a 46 flat to win the 80 yard medley relay for Radcliffe...