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...boys on the beach raced cheering to the spot. Soon tiny Sangatte's deputy mayor arrived and, in the confusion of tongues, thought he was welcoming Denmark's Elna Andersen, another Channel swimmer, who had not even started. But that night, back in the Dover hotel, everyone knew that Florence had become the first of her sex to make it the hard way. Gazing out the same window at the sea, Swimmer Chadwick announced: "I'm feeling fine...
Continued Bevan: "I am the world's worst swimmer [but] Tito is expert. When we went bathing together, Tito, my wife and Tiger, the magnificent German police dog that goes everywhere with him, the three of them enjoyed my discomfiture . . . The Marshal promised if I stayed a little longer he would soon teach me to be as good a swimmer as he is himself...
Sometimes he had been frightened. But not of the water-he had always been an unusually good swimmer. At the age of three, he had fallen into the 23-ft.-deep fountain at his native village of Roulans, in eastern France. "Other children would have drowned," he says. "I kicked the bottom and came up to the top without drinking a drop of water." Two years later, a bunch of toughs threw him into a lake; he bobbed to the surface and splashed ashore...
...Charles, an evil-smelling, unappetizing body of water that separates Soldiers Field from Jim Cronin's, will never become a swimmer's paradise, nor has its density any prospects of improving, since there is no way in which the flow of sewage from upstream factories, mills, and laundries can be diverted...
B.V.D. sparked another style revolution in the '30s, when its publicity stills of Olympic Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller in B.V.D. bathing trunks helped start the fad of topless swimming trunks for men. With the late Cinemactress Jean Harlow as a model, B.V.D. helped start the trend toward skirtless, one-piece bathing suits for women. But in 1934, Hollywood dealt men's underwear a near-mortal blow. In It Happened One Night, Clark Gable took off his shirt, and revealed that he wore no undershirt. Sales of men's underwear in the U.S. dropped 40% in a single year...