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...9/19/55. I've been resting here all day. With no water or food I thought it would be best to do less. Went to the seashore and swam. And salty the water. Maybe it's better than nothing. At 16:50 today I saw an aircraft. Couldn't get him to see me. He was flying right above me. Then I went to the seashore and had some more water. When I got back I was too weak to get firewood...
...inches in its deepest place. For a while the lake was a saucer of muddy water. Then, Army tank men from nearby Camp Irwin saw the water come to life, seething with millions of wiggly things. They found it swarming with four kinds of shrimp, some of which swam upside down. Others had hard, smooth shells and looked like tiny clams...
...artistic, also moved on the edge of the same world. He was of a very different physique, tall-medium in height, with blue eyes, an inquisitive nose, sensual mouth, curly hair and alert fox-terrier expression. He was immensely energetic, a great talker, reader, boaster, walker, who swam like an otter and drank, not like a feckless undergraduate as Donald was apt to do, but like some Rabelaisian bottle-swiper whose thirst was unquenchable...
Died. Howard Kramer ("Howdie") Gray, 54, famed Mayo Clinic abdominal surgeon, who operated on James Roosevelt in 1938, professor of surgery at the University of Minnesota, one of Princeton University's athletic greats as end on the undefeated football "team of destiny" in 1922; by drowning as he swam to retrieve a dinghy; in Lake Pepin, Minn...
...first swimmer to cross the strait, four men and three women have tried for the prize, have been defeated by the channel's fierce tides and unrelenting chop. Last week a barrel-shaped Tacoma logger named Bert Thomas, 29, slipped into the water at Port Angeles, Wash., swam through the night, and eleven hours, 17 minutes and 30 seconds later emerged cold and grinning on the Canadian shore...