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...other big gun is not so large in size, but he is so loose in the water that he excels at the butterfly, breaststroke, and individual medley. Dave Hawkins, who won three events against Yale last year, has scored more points and broken more records than any other Crimson swimmer in the past three years...

Author: By L. THOMAS Linden, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

Eitel, on the industry's black list for not answering a McCarthy-type committee, is despondent, not because he has no job, but rather because he could not seduce a teenage swimmer. The narrator, who has come to Desert D'Or with fourteen thousand dollars won in an unbelievable Air Force poker game, is equally sad because he could not fulfill his sexual needs in Japan. But into their lives come Elena and Lulu, and after some near-pornographic love-making scenes, the two men are both happy again, and better able to enjoy life in Mailer's world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Norman Mailer's Theory of Life: No Possible Happiness Without Sex | 12/1/1955 | See Source »

...self-propelled crossing of the English Channel, Marathon Swimmer Florence Chadwick, 36, of San Diego, set a new speed record, splashing ashore in France 13 hr., 55 min. after leaving England. Her time was eleven minutes faster than the record set in August by English Swimmer Bill Pickering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Oct. 24, 1955 | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

...Less than a half-hour after Dutch Swimmer Mary Kok, 15, sluiced through a Utrecht pool to set a world record for the free-style mile (22:27.1), her teammate, Lemi de Nija, 16, pushed the mark still lower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Aug. 22, 1955 | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

Juan de Fuca Strait, a frigid, 18-mile channel that separates Vancouver Island from the state of Washington, challenges distance swimmers with the same fierce fascination that Mount Everest arouses in mountaineers. Since last April, when the Victoria Times offered $1,000 to the first swimmer to cross the strait, four men and three women have tried for the prize, have been defeated by the channel's fierce tides and unrelenting chop. Last week a barrel-shaped Tacoma logger named Bert Thomas, 29, slipped into the water at Port Angeles, Wash., swam through the night, and eleven hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: First Across | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

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