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...Bosporus (meaning ox or cow ford) is a deep, narrow strait separating Europe and Asia, named in honor of an early swimmer: Io, daughter of the river god Inachos. Io, a looker, dallied with Zeus, who took the precaution-unavailable to other philandering husbands-of changing her into a heifer whenever his wife hove in sight. But Hera (Mrs. Zeus) was a shade too smart for him. One day she archly asked her husband to give her the heifer as a pet. To get out of the fix, poor Io galloped down over the plains of Illyria, across the Balkan...
...late King Victor Emmanuel, while driving with her husband, Count Carlo Calvi di Bergolo, along a highway near Milan, saw a tank truck swerve from the road and plunge into a ravine. While her husband drove to the nearest village for help, the princess, an expert golfer, swimmer and tennis player, broke into the truck's cab (the wreck had buckled the doors) and rescued the two drivers, who were drowning in wine. The wine-filled tank had burst, flooding...
...Mathias household has always been dedicated to athletics. Brother Eugene, 24, was a promising high-school football star until his career was cut short by a concussion; Jimmy, 18, is an up & coming decathloner (he finished 19th in the nationals); Patricia, 15, the family hopes, will be an Olympic swimmer...
...world's greatest third-string swimmer" was the label that sportwriters stuck on slight .(5 ft. 8 in., 150 Ibs.) Wayne Moore soon after he began swimming for Yale three years ago. On anybody else's team, Moore would have been a fast-stroking standout. But at Yale his talent was submerged at first in the backwash of two spectacular teammates: Australia's John Marshall, holder of the world 440-yd. free-style record, and Jimmy McLane, who, as an Andover schoolboy of 17, became the 1948 Olympic 1,500-meter freestyle champion. Last week, after...
...meter pool on the old New York World's Fair grounds, Swimmer Moore plunged into the water for the final 400-meter free-style heat of the U.S. Olympic tryouts. Marshall, who will compete for Australia in the Olympics, was not in the run, but Jimmy McLane was, and so was Ohio State's wiry Hawaiian star, Ford Konno, one of the world's best free-style swimmers. Splashing immediately into the lead, Yale's Moore cut the water like a hungry shark. At the 100-meter mark he led Yale Teammate McLane by two feet...