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...adoring to Author Flynn's descriptions of the magical outside world. But when she took him to a secluded pool and jumped in trustingly with nothing on, he decided that innocence disarms and went to say goodby. Lucy did not see why she could not go with him, swam out to the boat after them, scratched and bit while they trussed her up, took her ashore...
...first event, the 50-yard free style, Richard W. Tregaskis '33 of Winthrop swam away from the Eliot sprinters to make a new House record. Gilbert J. Bettmann '39 of the Elephants countered in the 50-yard breast stroke by creating another House record and setting his team on the road to success...
Edda, Countess Ciano once swam two miles out to a warship her father was about to inspect, climbed aboard and made for the Dictator in the guise of a dripping mermaid. For this unseemly conduct she at once received a vigorous verbal dressing-down. High-spirited Edda promptly did a dangerous high-dive off the bridge of the warship, swam, the two miles back to shore, and afterward in private was praised for her spunk by the delighted Dictator. She is the only real intimate of a man now lonely in his greatness. Al though from time to time...
...Brockport, N. Y., Maxwell Breeze, 14, was drowned July 4 as he swam in the Erie Canal. Friends insisted that a cur (Airedale+wolfhound) named Idaho had climbed Breeze's back, forced him under. Ten days later Daniel Houghton, 21, said Idaho had nearly drowned him in the same manner. Straightway he took the case to court, demanded Idaho's death. A storm of controversy blew up & down the land. Dimes and quarters were sent for Idaho's defense. Hired with the money, Harry Sessions, Rochester attorney, pleaded the dog's youthful playfulness. As crowds cheered...
Headquarters were at the second best hotel, for almost by definition cooperators are not affluent. Since Co-operation is a Cause as well as a system of economics, the delegates did not go in for the usual convention revelry of profit-making businessmen. They swam with their ladies in Lake Minnewaska. They celebrated at Glenwood Park. They inspected the only co-operative in Glenwood, a filling station. They stayed away from the slot-machines in the hotel bar, one cooperator crisply observing: "Slot-machines are distinctly not co-operative." They were there to talk the theory & practice of cooperation...