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...looked with nostalgia at the photograph of Merrywood [May 11, where "from the time she was 13, Jacqueline Bouvier swam, played tennis and gamboled about." From the time I was 10 (seven years before the Bouvier arrival), I also swam, played tennis, etc. there, and it is sad to see the old place...
...high, leafy bluff overlooking the Potomac in McLean, Va., just northwest of Washington, is a broad, lovely, 46-acre estate called Merrywood. There, from the time she was 13, Jacqueline Bouvier swam, played tennis, rode her pony and gamboled about. Merrywood is owned by Jackie Kennedy's stepfather, Hugh Dudley Auchincloss, who bought it in 1934 for $135,000. and who put $100,000 or more into such extras as a greenhouse and an indoor badminton court. But last week there was little merriment at Merrywood. Sighed its master, a gentle man who is known to friends and family...
This afternoon, before an empty pool gallery, Harry Turner, the varsity's distance man, swam for the first time in the 1500-meter freestyle and finished a surprising fifth. The Crimson had hoped for a possible sixth place for Turner, who had been weakened by the flu early this week...
Strict Code. He was raised in New Concord (pop. 2,000), a quiet, shirt-sleeves-and-overalls town in central Ohio, where his father, by turns, was a railroad conductor, the proprietor of a plumbing business, and the owner of the local Chevrolet agency. As a boy, he swam in Crooked Creek, hunted rabbits, played football and basketball, read Buck Rogers, was a great admirer of Glenn Miller, and blew a blaring trumpet in the town band.* Predominantly Presbyterian, New Concord's moral code was such that cigarettes were judged to be instruments of the Devil, and the kids nicknamed...
...Crimson swimmers effortlessly swept past a hapless Columbia squad, 76-19, Saturday at the I.A.B., to keep intact their undefeated season record. The Lions failed to win a single event all evening, and two of their four second place finishes were garnered by default when the Crimson swam only one man against them...