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...Less than 24 hours after she swam a world's record (5:06.7) 440-yd. free-style race at Sydney, Australia's Lorraine Crapp, 17, covered the distance once more, lowered the mark to 5:05.9. In the same pool another Australian youngster, Garry Chapman, 17, won the 220-yd. freestyle with a world record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Feb. 27, 1956 | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

...edge of the Gulf Stream, 2½ miles off Hollywood Beach, Fla., Indianapolis Housewife Barbara Jacobs, 33, strapped on an Aqua-Lung, swam down to a new skindiving record for women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Jan. 30, 1956 | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

Seaton swims the 220 and 440 yard freestyle events for the Yardlings. He swam the same events for his Coffeyville High School team which he captained in his senior year. He was named All-American in the 200 yard freestyle last year, and became a Junior National Champion in the 200 meter freestyle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seaton Will Captain Yardling Swimmers | 1/20/1956 | See Source »

Then she read from some books. She read directions one how to swim, like "Don't inhale under water," quoted from the Bible, and read from "Horatio at the Bridge," explaining how Horatio swam the Tiber clothed all in armor. Meanwhile, Captain John Phair of the Yale swimming team swam the entire length of the 25-yard pool clothed all in armor--on loan, I guess, from some museum. He wore K-rations strapped around him to make up, they said, for the lack of Tiber current in the Payne Whitney pool...

Author: By L. THOMAS Linden, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 11/3/1955 | See Source »

...20th Century-Fox). The 18th century residents of the country around Hollywood, if this picture is as well authenticated as it claims to be, were pretty much like the present inhabitants. They lolled about in the sun and slept in breezy, tule-thatched cabañas (called hogans). They swam in the afternoon and painted themselves luridly before going out in the evening. When they disliked someone, they cut out his heart and sent the rest of him back to his family. This picture describes, in handsome color and costume, an early attempt to civilize the region, as made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 31, 1955 | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

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