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When the President swam in the White House pool, he took business callers along to finish conversations. Telephone calls from the far corners of the world interrupted his evenings; he seldom got to the White House movies now. He observed a nightly blackout: 2,700 yards of double-thickness blackout curtains were hidden behind White House draperies...
...Chinese had no choice but to abandon the town. Across brushlands and rice paddies, they rushed from the sheltering trees and houses of Toungoo. Jap artillery fired pointblank. The Chinese scattered, broke through to the Sittang River, waded and swam it, under constant fire. They took their losses, but they won through to the main Chinese forces in the north. For every dead Chinese on the fields and hills around Toungoo, they left four dead Japs...
...Father Joseph Sweeney tried to run the Jap blockade on a Chinese coaster with a vitally needed load of medicine for his leper colony. When two gunboats shelled the ship he slipped overboard and swam six hours before reaching shore. Now, despite the spread of the war, he is busy as ever among his lepers...
Teamed with Curwen and Sceery, Drucker also swam against Yale in the 300 yard medley relay but lost to a championship Blue trio; teamed now with Buz Curwen and Johnny Eusden, Drucker is entered in the medley both for the Eastern Intercollegiates which are held at Yale this weekend, and for the National Intercollegiates which will be held here next week. Drucker finished second in the 150 yard backstroke in last year's Eastern Intercollegiates...
Although Yale tried mightily to ring up a world's record in the Medley Relay, the only record-breaking of the evening came when ace backstroker Danny Dannenbaum swam the first leg of the Medley Relay in 59.8 seconds to eclipse the old mark of 60.7 seconds set by Joe Burns two years...