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Anita, 22-year-old daughter of Joseph Clark Grew, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, swam the length of the Bosporus (18 mi.) in five hours, while her father fed her chocolate, cheered her with phonograph music from a small boat...
These are now the best U. S. women swimmers and divers. A few years ago the best were Gertrude Ederle, who swam the British channel Aug. 6, 1926 and is now instructor at a pool near Manhattan; Martha Norelius, who won the Wrigley Marathon in 1929, the Olympic Championship in 1924 and 1928, is now married to Joseph Wright Jr., 1928 Diamond Sculls winner; Helen Wainwright who is giving diving exhibitions on the Berengaria's four-day tours; Aileen Riggin who toured Europe last winter and recently lost a job with Dobbs & Co., bankrupt haberdashers...
Near Balboa, Canal Zone, Chief Electrician Leslie W. Burnside of the motor ship Courageous jumped overboard to commit suicide, changed his mind, swam about for twelve hours before the S. S. Sabotawan picked...
...intercollegiate meet in the Columbia pool last Saturday he won the race in 5:04 after having been first among the qualifiers on Friday with a time of 5:03 1-4. The best official time that de Lima set was 5:08 3-5, although the Harvard captain swam the distance in considerably faster time when he placed second to Leedy in the Yale meet. The 200-yard breast stroke record was lowered three times during the year. The only mark which did not fall during the year was that in the 150-yard backstroke. This consistent lowering...
...doctors were amazed, but nonetheless swam with the tide of publicity and patients. They opened auxiliary clinics at Los Angeles and Long Beach. They went before a Senate committee to argue for Government aid for cancer research. They gained a patent for their extract.* Mrs. Grace Hammond Conners, widow of the Buffalo ship owner, newspaper publisher and political boss, William James ("Fingy") Conners, gave Drs. Coffey & Humber her $1,000,000 estate, "The Monastery," at Huntington, L. I. (TIME...