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Princess Setsuko was a bright student at a Quaker school in Washington. Often she sped in her automobile on Washington's broad avenues. She played tennis or swam at exclusive country clubs. Often she dances. She likes jazz...
Lucky, socalled, a greasy and peculiar police-bitch, swam from Albany to Manhattan down the Hudson River in 44 hr., 52 min. Such human beings as have also swum from Albany to New York, though enraged to discover that the bitch had done it in five hours less than the best of them, were comforted to discover that she swam only two hours at a stretch, while their intervals of paddling had been longer...
...long delayed by mechanical difficulties. Outside the military science units on Soldiers Field has long stood the polo practise cage, its purpose conjectual only to the imaginative. The scarred and single symbol that polo is played at Harvard, it has been also the symbol, like the graduate student who swam the Charles in March, of an inadequacy...
Actress Louise Groody, plump, frolicsome musical comedy headliner (Good Morning Dearie, Hit the Deck) swam playfully last week, in the fashionable Lido pool on the Champs Elysées, Paris, collapsed naturally, was removed routinely to the American Hospital at Neuilly. The attention she gained so accidentally her press agent put to prompt, broad and good...
...Baedeker which directs him wherever the fates most joyfully convene. During the War he was on the bridge of the transport Minnehaha when it was torpedoed off the Irish coast. The ship sank so rapidly that it literally shot out from under its Captain's feet. He calmly swam about, assisted twelve wallowing survivors into lifeboats. Then, through long grey hours he bobbed about in icy water, blowing air from his huge lungs into a leaky life preserver, until finally he heard the drawl of a familiar voice, "Oh I say, Claret, is that you?" The voice...