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...April 21, John had the day off and went with Donna to St. Thomas' Magens Bay. As he swam 100 ft. from shore, she strolled leisurely on the beach -until she heard John scream. Around him the water frothed and reddened sickeningly; he was being attacked by a killer shark...
...broken arm and possible concussion after being thrown by his horse; Presidential Scientific Adviser Jerome Wiesner, 48, in Otis Air Force Base Hospital with pneumonia after his 10-ft. sailboat capsized off Martha's Vineyard. A poor swimmer, Wiesner clung to the boat while his son Joshua, 10, swam for help, worried frantically after 45 minutes that the boy had drowned. Rescued by a passing boat, Wiesner had the Coast Guard dredging the bay when word came that Joshua too had been picked up, was safe at home...
...During the 1919 storm in Corpus Christi, local citizens took refuge in several downtown buildings, one of which was the Nueces County Courthouse. How then could you write of Dr. Robert Simpson that "he swam to the roof of the courthouse" [Aug. 16]? Numerous watermarks have established that the tide crested at 9 ft. above mean sea level. Wave action above the tide level was about 2½ ft., making the highest watermark...
...Corpus Christi's civic memory is long and accurate. Dr. Simpson's father, with young Simpson on his back, swam over the backyard fence to the courthouse steps, where they took refuge with other storm-battered citizens...
...excitable out of water as he is exciting in it, Schollander practically swam every race in Tokyo. While an 18-year-old University of Southern California sophomore named Roy Saari churned through the seemingly endless laps of the 1,500-meter freestyle, Schollander leaped crazily along the edge of the pool, waving a white towel and yelling "Get going!" For 24 lengths, Saari lagged sadly behind the lap times set by Australia's John Konrads when he posted the world record of 17:11 three years ago. Then Saari spotted Schollander's frenzied cheerleading out of the corner...