Word: timson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week it was Clemington Corson who rowed a dory across the English Channel in the van of his wife, who chatted with her in grey hours of the early morn ing, who fed her two pints of hot chocolate, four lumps of sugar, six crackers. He heard cheerleader Louis Timson's booming bass notes canter over the waves: "Oh, Millie! Oh, Millie! How you can swim!" He saw his wife almost go under in the backwash of the Amsterdam steamer Ulysses; he saw a gleam ing porpoise turn over, 20 yards from the mother of his two chil dren...
...long slow trip, behaved like one. As Gertrude Ederle, having splashed through the breakers at Cape Gris Nez, fell into a slow crawl beside the tug, "Pop" Ederle sat on deck, chatting comfortably to Thomas Burgess (trainer), Helmi (Egyptian swimmer), Miss Cannon (another U. S. Channel aspirant) and one Timson (Boston swimmer). In the bow was a brass band. On the tug's side was a great white arrow with the legend, "This Way, Ole Kid." The band played The Star-Spangled Banner. Miss Ederle responded from the water. She swam the first four miles in three hours...