Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Margaret Clapp, college students' minds, male or female, are broadened by the same studies. With a good general college course, a girl can go on and do as she pleases-study medicine, swim the English Channel, or take up the housewife's career and serve it well. Woman's place, thinks Margaret Clapp, is anywhere...
...surprise announcement from University Hall yesterday revealed that John Benjamin Obbey, a two ounce tautly residing in the Registrar's Office, will attempt to swim the English Channel next summer...
...turtle now practices nightly under the tutelage of Registrar clerks Shirley Dixon and Lois Bickford, who discovered him in Maine two months ago. The trainers and now at work peeling his paint so he can swim the Channel nude...
...first problem the girls encountered occurred shortly after the turtle took up residence in a University Hall goldfish bowl. After days of planning and ballyhoo, the trainers discovered to their chagrin that the turtle couldn't swim. They blamed it on the goldfish...
...dunked a toe in the icy waters, announced that she was not really scared, and struck out in the general direction of Dover, England. For fame, for fortune, and for Scripps-Howard and United Artists, grease-coated, 17-year-old Shirley May France of Somerset, Mass. was trying to swim the English Channel...