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...wonders if Lillian Harrison demands ice cream and soup after swimming. Last week Lillian swam the river Plate for the first time in history. Starting from Uruguay she navigated obliquely 30 miles (in 24 hrs. 19 min.) to the Argentine shore...
Enrique Tirabocchi, who swam the English Channel last Summer, failed in the Plate. Henry Sullivan, Lowell, Mass., took five hours longer to swim the Channel than Lillian took to swim the Plate. Yet he was strong enough to march to the nearest restaurant for ice cream and soup. Details as to what Lillian asked for after her swim was done are lacking...
...next play McGlone fumbled, and Hart recovered for Yale on Harvard 28 yard line. Cottle failed to gain around left end, and on the next play Stevens swam through the center of the line for two yards. Mallory then sent another placement kick squarely between the goal posts. Score Yale 13, Harvard...
Paul Whiteman, jazz orchestra leader: " Home from London on the Leviathan, I was met at Quarantine by a band in pneumatic suits. The musicians swam around the boat, playing me a syncopated welcome...
...crossing consumed 26 hours, 50 minutes of his time. (In 1875 Captain Mathew Webb swam the channel in 21 hours, 45 minutes. In 1911 Thomas Burgess did it in 22 hours, 35 minutes...