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Also look for Tiger swimmer Fred Test and the Crimson's Tim Neville to thrash it out in a very quick 50 free...

Author: By James W. Reinig, | Title: Harvard Swimmers to Face Princeton | 2/4/1976 | See Source »

Harvard coach Essick claims this is nonsense. If you compare this season's best times for each swimmer in a hypothetical meet, he explains, Princeton would...

Author: By James W. Reinig, | Title: Harvard Swimmers to Face Princeton | 2/4/1976 | See Source »

Betty Ford recalls that when Jerry called at her home for their first date, he knocked over a vase filled with fresh roses. Though Ford is an excellent skier and swimmer, he has a weak knee from an old football injury, and that could cause some of his pratfalls. Moreover, the President could conceivably begin to win sympathy for his inadvertent clumsiness, especially if the jokes grow too cruel, as they are on the verge of doing. Nonetheless, the ridicule factor is fast becoming yet another worry for Ford's strategists. Jim Squires, Washington bureau chief for the Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Ridicule Problem | 1/5/1976 | See Source »

Died. Annette Kellerman Sullivan, 90, Australian long-distance swimmer who became one of vaudeville's international stars; of a heart attack; in Southport, Australia. Kellerman outgrew her childhood bowleggedness and developed a figure that earned her such accolades as "the form divine" and "the diving Venus." In 1907 Kellerman shocked Boston by appearing at Revere Beach wearing a skirtless one-piece bathing suit and was promptly arrested for indecent exposure. On vaudeville stages in Europe and the U.S., Kellerman dived into a glass tank from heights of 75 ft.; she also starred in aquatic movies. In 1952 Kellerman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 17, 1975 | 11/17/1975 | See Source »

...there any satisfactory explanations for how Karen got into her appalling situation. She was born of unknown parents in Pennsylvania and adopted by the Quinlans when she was four weeks old. The Quinlans still think of her as a friendly, outgoing girl, a fine skier and swimmer, who occasionally picked up a few extra dollars by singing in church. Friends from Morris Catholic High School, from which Karen graduated in 1972, describe her as quiet, but popular with the boys. Her employer at a ceramics company in Ledgewood, N.J., where she was a production worker until she was laid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: A Life in the Balance | 11/3/1975 | See Source »

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