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...Edmond Cecil Harmsworth, handed her a contract for all her writings, a check for $50,000. Besides Riflewoman Marjorie Foster, other heroines present included Miss Winifred Brown, aviatrix who won the King's Cup for a race round England (TIME, June 14); Ivy Hawke, Channel swimmer; Diana Fishwick, golf champion; Joan Manning Saunders, exhibitor at the Royal Academy when she was only 16; Sylvia Thompson, novelist...
...each air tank was posted a brown native swimmer, manning valves which would admit water, let the pipe sink to the bottom of the bay. When all was ready a whistle blast was sounded and the offshore end started to submerge. Watchers saw the long serpent slowly disappearing, when suddenly something went wrong. The great pipe started slipping sidewise, gathering speed. Tremendous pressure of strong subsea currents had snapped one of the shore cables like cotton thread. Soon the other cable parted and the whole long pipe plunged downward out of sight, a total loss...
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When Sportsman Alain Gerbault (swimmer, poloist, tennis player, footballer, war ace) thought of going around the world,* he wanted to go alone, bought an English decked cutter, the Firecrest (39 feet, built in 1892), and put out of Havre across the Atlantic. That was in June, 1924. In The Fight of the Firecrest Sailor Gerbault gave the log of his 101-day voyage to Manhattan. In Quest of the Sun takes up the tale from there, tells how he completed his voyage round the earth...
Engaged. Helen Meany, Olympic swimmer & diver; to one Harry R. Balfe, of New York and Clovis, Calif...