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...Manhattan, New York University proudly announced its new women's swimming coach: two-way Channel Swimmer Florence Chadwick...
...potential event-swimmer from Tech is the fine backstroker, Dirk Plummer. The Crimson has lost its outstanding man in this event, John Steinhart, who went undefeated last season until the Eastern Championships. Steinhart's understudy was Hugh Hartwell, and sophomore Don Mulvey is even faster than Hartwell, but neither should be able to defeat Plummer in an opening meet...
...started last July when Broadway Showman Billy Rose tried to suppress the news that blonde Joyce Mathews, divorced wife of Milton Berle, had attempted suicide in his Ziegfeld Theater apartment (TIME, July 23). Last week he was in trouble again. The scene was the same. His wife, former Olympic Swimmer Eleanor Holm, equipped with camera and a private detective at her side, raided the stronghold, found her husband "not alone." With this evidence, she retired to their Beekman Place town house and bolted the doors. When Rose appeared, in a chauffeur-driven Cadillac, photographers banged away at the blinking, bewildered...
Although Mrs. Bridges drowned, police think it unlikely that it was accidental, as she was an excellent swimmer. Her family testified that she had no reason they knew of to commit suicide...
Medical examiner Joseph DiClerico said the marks may have been caused by driftwood. At first, the police accepted Mrs. Bridges' death as suicide, but later learned she was an excellent swimmer. Her husband and friends say she had no reason to commit suicide. Also, witnesses claim they saw a blue Cadillac convertible similar to Mrs. Bridges, with a man and woman in it, near the scene of the crime...