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Conspicuous on one evening lately was a foursome of professional-looking crawl swimmers that for minutes on end swam lengthwise up and down the pool, displaying their best form. On inquiry, one of them was found to be none other than Miss Jean Booth, State Junior 100 Yard Free Style Champion. The three men with her seemed to be enjoying the competition. Some bench-sitters, on the other hand, could be heard voicing displeasure. Exhibitionism was charged...
Retriever. In Donalsonville, Ga., Hunter Egber Ward's dog swam out in a lake to retrieve a dove, returned with a trout...
...fire. A British truck driver named Downes, who escaped from both Dunkirk and Tobruk, said Tobruk was worse. Reaching the docks just as an artillery shell blew up a building behind him, he boarded a tug, which soon took two or three direct shell hits amidships. He jumped overboard, swam around patches of blazing oil, cried out to a passing mine sweeper, was hauled aboard. Next day the mine sweeper was attacked and burned by Italian torpedo boats whose fire killed all the mine sweeper's gunners. Again Downes went overside, swam to a raft, from which...
...Commander Cassin Young, who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his exploit at Pearl Harbor. Blown overboard by an explosion, he swam back to his ship, climbed aboard and calmly maneuvered it to safety...
...still swam the shark-infested stretch from Bataan to Corregidor, and in the last few hours boats got across with nurses and a few survivors. But the biggest part of the battle-trained Philippine Army was gone. From the heights the Jap, with artillery already emplaced, began slamming away at Corregidor. The soldiers there and the few civilians who had fled from Bataan (where 20,000 had been an added charge on the troops) knew it could not be long before they were finished too. No gunners had ever been in finer positions than the Jap. From Bataan...