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...Cabrillo Beach, Calif., Stratonaut Jean Piccard, swimming under water, bumped heads with another underwater swimmer, was treated for cuts & bruises...
...major trouble with Italian athletes is that they lack the ability to concentrate. Like onetime Prizefighter Enzo Fiermonte, Swimmer Gambi has several strings to his bow. He has been mildly successful as an opera singer, regards swimming not as his major occupation but as a recreation demanded by his lifework of building up his father's Ravenna stable of trotting horses which he hopes to make the best in Italy, if not in the world. Independently rich, Swimmer Gambi has for several years been challenging swimmers like Champion Marvin Nelson to a 5-mi. race...
Dissatisfied with the effect of his first patriotic outburst last week Swimmer Gambi promptly tried another: "Ethiopia will be pleased to be under Italian leadership...
...refuses him permission to leave home. That the annual long-distance swimming race at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto could be construed as an equivalent of the title which Carnera lost is exactly the sort of notion which an Italian would be likely to foster. Consequently when Swimmer Gianni Gambi was prematurely dragged out of Lake Ontario a year ago, half-frozen, exhausted and spluttering about the disgrace to Italy, no one was much surprised...
Last week, Swimmer Gambi managed to contribute not one surprise but two to the Toronto race. This time, partly because the water was about 20° warmer than usual (74°) and partly because the race had been shortened from 15 mi. to five, Swimmer Gambi not only finished but won, against 90 high-grade professionals, in the excellent time of 2 hr., 8 min., 55 sec. Hauled onto a float and wrapped in a towel, he shouted into a microphone: "I am happy to have won for Italy and Il Duce!" A crowd of 10,000 immediately stopped cheering...