Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intellectual landscape created by French Novelist Boulle, the most interesting sight is a special stream of Gallic irony. His heroes drown in it before the reader's eyes, but even as they go down it is obvious that they all know how to swim. In The Bridge Over the River Kwai it was a British colonel whose fight for honor gave aid and comfort to the Japanese. In Not the Glory, it was a German spy whose best efforts aided the British. In his new novel, laid in a sleepy Provencal town among ordinary people...
Wolfe speaks for and to the young, particularly to young men who know instinctively that "it is good to eat, to drink, to sleep, to fish, to swim, to run, to travel to strange cities, to ride on land, sea and in the air upon great machines, to love a woman, to try to make a beautiful thing." He speaks against the naysayers who consider such occupations futile, and orders them to "go bury themselves in the earth and get eaten by worms to see if that is less futile." Tom Wolfe swings a bludgeon against lawyers, pedants, critics, Communists...
Before they got around to answering that question, the labor leaders had a day of routine business meetings and a chance to tour the nearby golf course, swim in Friendship Lake below the administration building, play tennis and shuffleboard (or, like the auto workers' Walter Reuther, have a fling at square dancing on the shuffleboard court), and view the movie Helen of Troy in Dubinsky's $750,000 lakeside theater. Their every want was tended by Unity House's regular staff of 400, plus 50 extras brought in for the occasion...
...Swimming alone, with only her own superb sense of time to egg her on, Aus tralia's Lorraine Crapp, 17, became the first woman in the world to swim 400 yds. free style in less than five minutes. While she was at it, the husky schoolgirl set four world's records: 440 yds. in 4:52.4 400 meters in 4:50.8, 220 yds. in 2:20.5, and 200 meters...
Emerging from the Atlantic surf on the New Jersey coast, power-packed Gertrude Ederle, 49, looked as if she could still swim the English Channel, a 35-mile trick that she was the first woman to perform. This week Gertrude was slated to get cheers and a commemorative plaque in the 30th anniversary month of her great triumph over winds, tides and waves...