Word: swimmer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pool since before going to Quebec. He had the sniffles for two or three days and since then has been in & out of town and terribly busy. But he's going to start in the pool again now. It's good for him. He is a powerful swimmer and that gives him a good workout. . . . The buoyancy of the water enables him to walk and he gets exercise there that he can't get any other...
Next week husky, dusky Bill Smith will probably break some more world's swimming records, most of them his own, and become the swimmer of the year. The Navy's 19-year-old seaman 2nd class will enter every free-style race from 100 yds. to half a mile at the National A.A.U. championships at the University of Michigan. Very likely he will win them...
...TIME, Feb. 8, 1943). Last week Sprinter Ford became the first man in history to swim 100 yds. in under 50 seconds in a regular-sized pool. He drenched his own world's record with 49·7· But at longer distances, Smith looks like the better swimmer. He holds 23 world's free-style records, from 2:07.1 for 220 yds. to 18:03.8 for 1,400 meters. He also is anchor man on the Great Lakes Naval Training Station relay team that holds three more world's records...
...with 97 points, 23 firsts) was Bobby Jones's 1930 "Grand Slam," the winning of both the U.S. and British Amateur and Open Golf Championships. Second (39 and 7) was Babe Ruth's pitching, fielding and homers. Among the 43 also-rans were two women (Babe Didrikson, Swimmer Nancy Merki) and three horses (Seabiscuit, Man o' War and Exterminator). Not a vote went to the most famous athlete in history: wrestling Jacob...
Sued for Divorce. Johnny Weissmuller, 39, thrice-married swimmer-turned-cinema-Tarzan; by Beryel Laura Scott Weissmuller, 28, San Francisco rug cleaner's daughter, mother of Weissmuller's three; after four years of marriage, her first; in Los Angeles...