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Beneath Manhattan's East River, Diver John Forward was groping over the hulk of the S. S. Lexington which sank last January (TIME, Jan. 14) when a human hand languidly slapped him across the face of his helmet. It was the hand of a man whose feet had been caught under a packing case. The hand continued to slap Diver Forward until he had worked the body loose, sent it to the surface...
...Dorothy Poynton Hill never breaks any records. This is not because she is less able than her associates but because she is a diver, judged on points instead of time. Bright, blonde, vivacious, she is married to a Hollywood salesman, hyphenates her name in swimming meet programs. Her face is less familiar to the public than those of her friends because she is usually photographed in midair. Last week, "Minnow" Rawls's absence from the low-board dive practically assured Mrs. Hill of the title, which she promptly...
...down--trying to embrace me twenty feet below the surface. I didn't have anything to do with it, honest. I was groping about the bottom once when, interrupted by a tap on my shoulder. I turned about prepared to grasp a playful fellow-diver--and clasped a slimy, clammy arm--the sodden corpse of a dead woman...
Fred Wallace, veteran diver, who feels light-headed without his 140 pounds of gear, told about another victim he pulled up from Davy Jones' hideout...
Henry Fitts., the outstanding candidate for the Intercollegiate diving title, is lost to the Crimson team through scholastic difficulties, and Lyman, Brown's star diver, may pick up several points in this event...