Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood, Esther Williams, who has splashed her way to many an aquatic box-office hit, was in the swim again. This time it was the life story of Annette Kellerman, a pioneer of the one-piece bathing suit (with full-length tights), which caused her arrest in a shocked Boston 42 years ago when she introduced it. On hand as technical adviser was 64-year-old Annette herself to help with the facts and with Esther's 28-bathing-suit wardrobe, which includes fluffy bloomers and sleek, skintight numbers, but nothing in the Bikini line. Annette believes the Bikinis...
Negroes do not go to the Gem Theater, where the first-run films are shown. They do not eat in the white restaurants, or use the public library; and while the whites swim in the WPA-built pool, the colored folks, as the townspeople say, must "drown in the river." The schools have been separate as long as anyone can remember. Says Mrs. John C. Fisher, owner of the Cairo Citizen: "We've just never thought that this wasn't natural...
...miss. Why just the day before, in a practice round, he had set an unofficial record of 98 out of 100. But Patton might well have been jittery about an upcoming ordeal. During the next four days, against the world's best athletes, he would have to 1) swim 300 meters, 2) fence from sunup to sundown, 3) ride a strange mount over 25 jumps on a rugged 5,000-meter course, 4) run 4,000 meters cross country. When it was all over, young Patton was an aching mass of muscle. But to the day he was fatally...
...Wills, who set a new Brown mark in the 220 freestyle last year, may swim the individual medley or the breaststroke, and Don Cameron may be switched from the freestyle middle distances into the individual medley...
...tail flapped wildly as he raced to retrieve it. But before he could pick it up, the hunters had thrown another. For five minutes they kept the dog racing into the water and out, dashing back & forth along the rocks, "tolling"* the ducks. Soon the inquisitive birds began to swim inshore, attracted by Dusty's gayly waving tail...