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...Grossinger's also shelters sportsmen: Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano is training there now for his September fight with Roland La Starza. Channel Swimmer Florence Chadwick was a Grossinger pro, as was Golfer Babe Didrickson Zaharias...
...Sailor Bill Taylor, managing editor of Yachting* conceived a plan for racing dinghies in the winter, dubbed it "frostbite" racing. This chilly, spray-dashed sport, with its quota of icy dunkings, takes place on days when even the most avid snowbird golfer or polar bear swimmer sits by the fire...
Family & Early Years: The son of a Navy commander, "Mick" Carney was born in Vallejo, Calif. A classmate of Radford at the Naval Academy, Carney was a boxer and swimmer and a superior student. During World War I, as a destroyer officer, he was cited for his part in the capture of a German submarine off the French coast...
Squat Russell Tongay could hardly wait to make a swimmer out of his first-born son. As a high-school boy in St. Louis, barrel-chested Russ was a sprint swimmer himself, and earned letters in almost every other sport. But fame & fortune eluded him. He became a coach at municipal pools and summer camps, was anonymously enduring World War II as a Coast Guard pharmacist's mate at Miami when Russell Jr. was born...
...loved animals and raised hamsters with tender care. He was a good swimmer, and he played on the high-school junior varsity football team. He liked children and was in constant demand as a baby sitter. His father was a little disappointed after his son finished high school last summer because Fred insisted on enlisting in the Marines instead of going to college. But 18-year-old Fred was a sight to warm any father's heart when he came home on a ten-day leave from Camp Lejeune, N.C. He was tanned, soldierly, and as polite and thoughtful...