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...asked Rita Hayworth what she thought of Esther Williams, and Rita told me she thinks Esther is a good swimmer. Later on I asked Esther about Rita, and she said Rita is a good dancer . . . Curt Jurgens had a simple party at Cap Ferrat-twelve guests, the butler, the chauffeur, the cook, the secretary, one monkey, five parrots, and two dogs . . . Elsa Maxwell, looking like a weather-beaten hill, stood in the lobby of the Excelsior under a big straw hat which made it hard to tell what was front and what was back...
...secret, it must have to do with breath control. A lean, athletic man, he works out on a chinning bar and punching bag in his apartment, finds that his control is always best after a summer of swimming. In his youth, Kinkaid was a champion swimmer in Honolulu, where his Presbyterian minister father was assigned, but he gave up an athletic career for music, studied with the late great Flutist Georges Barrère. He understudied Barrère in the New York Symphony when he was only 17, graduated to the first-flute desk at the Philadelphia Orchestra when...
...builders at the turn of the century. Dowling was born to the business. But for a while he was more interested in flexing his muscles than his mind. With a strapping, oaklike physique (6 ft. 1 in.. 210 Ibs.). Dowling was a great boxer and swimmer, is one of the few ever to swim the 36 miles around Manhattan Island (time: 13 hours. 45 min.). After high school and a hitch in the Navy during World War I, he lost interest in formal education...
...medley (butterfly, backstroke, breast stroke, freestyle), Stanford Junior George Harrison, 20, won in 4:28.6 to better by 2.6 sec. the fastest time ever recorded for the event and earn high praise from Yale's Coach Emeritus Bob Kiphuth: "Technically the greatest all-round swimmer in the world." Behind Harrison was Sophomore Lance Larson of the University of Southern California, who himself was .5 sec. under the record...
...problem had badgered divers as far back as 5000 B.C.. when the Sumerians spun the tale of a swimmer who sought the weed of eternal life beneath the waves. Down through the centuries, woodcuts show submerged men hopefully sucking on bags full of air or puffing on tubes reaching to the surface. Looking for something better, Cousteau tried an oxygen lung based on a design developed by the British as early as 1878. He almost killed himself. He did not know the fatal flaw of oxygen: it becomes toxic at depths below 30 ft.* Twice Cousteau had convulsive spasms...