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...French soldiers from German soil. In Germany it was the most momentous hour since the Armistice. Bonfires blazed along the Rhine from Switzerland to Holland. Churchbells rang in towns throughout Germany. In Berlin a battery of howitzers shook the Linden trees with an earsplitting 21-gun salute. The Reich swam in beer...
Wilhelm, eldest son of onetime Crown Prince Frederick Wilhelm of Germany, went up in a balloon with four companions near Konigsberg. Germany; was carried out over, descended into the Baltic sea, spilled out. A motor boat picked up two of the passengers. Wilhelm and the navigator swam ashore...
Since she left Seattle in January to compete with famed swimmers in the south, Helene Madison had broken five world's records, most of them in sprints. She thought she could do better than that. Last week in Jacksonville over a 20-yd. course she swam 500 yds. while A. A. U. judges timed her. When she got out of the pool she had beaten the time for every standard distance from 200 to 500 yards...
...warm beard instead of a shirt. He had been Methodist Bishop of Africa. When he arrived in San Francisco he put his Bible on an overturned whiskey barrel in the middle of Portsmouth Square, bellowed and sang until the saloons emptied to hear him. For diversion he swam regularly across San Francisco Bay, a procedure still regarded as something of an athletic feat. He founded the College of the Pacific (Methodist Episcopal college in Stockton, enrollment about 970), wrote more than 20 books, thundered his old-time religion at Gold Coast sots and socialites...
...Francisco Bay, a ferryboat ran into a large live whale which spouted, swam away...