Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quite sure where his appeal lies, and it doesn't bother him. His aim: "To be to the piano what Bing Crosby is to the voice." Another aim: to finish his new home in Royal Oaks, Calif., where he, his brother and his mother can live, and swim in their pool, which is shaped like a grand piano viewed from the second balcony...
...Wissant, France. Channel Swimmer Abdel Litif Abou Heif, 23, after swimming four miles to help his Egyptian teammates set a new cross-channel-relay record (10:51), dove right back into the swim and set a new England-France record of his own: 13:45. The U.S.'s Florence Chadwick, who hoped to make it both ways nonstop, got seasick and was pulled out of the water after ten hours...
Globetrotting Adlai Stevenson whipped into Cyprus, pausing just long enough to announce that when he gets home he will visit the White House, at President Eisenhower's invitation. Then he was off to Turkey where he took a swim in the Bosporus and chatted with India Edwards, vice chairman of the U.S. Democratic National Committee, before pushing off for Belgrade, Yugoslavia...
Died. Norman ("Uncle Normie") Ross, 57, Chicago disk jockey and onetime Olympic swimming champion (1920); of a heart attack; in Evanston, Ill. "Big Moose" Ross claimed that he learned to swim by reading an instruction manual, but he broke 72 world records, won both the 400 and the 1,500-meter Olympic races at Antwerp in 1920. Hired by a Chicago radio station in 1931, Ross attracted over a million Midwestern listen ers with his early morning "400 Hour" of classical music and light chatter...
...best soldiers he has ever known-and so do dozens of other people. Gruenther is a thin, pale, frank officer who proves to be studious, well-informed and extremely well-liked . . . The knowing element in the Army is betting on the Eisenhower-Gruenther combination to swim to the top quickly...