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...front in their campaign against segregation. Sit-ins at segregated lunch counters will give way to "wade-ins" at segregated public beaches. "Negroes get hot just like white people do," said the N.A.A.C.P.'s Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins in announcing the new tactic last week. "They like to swim to cool off, and intend to do it this summer...
...less ambitious but far better crafted than her husband's; her most recent: The Unspeakable Skipton, a witty, waspish caricature of the famed adventurer, "Baron Corvo." The Snows share a ten-room London flat and a 6½-year-old son. Snow likes to be in the worldly swim and throws parties conspicuously free of fellow novelists. Sir Charles is a shade stuffy about most 20th century authors; of another practicing panoramist, Lawrence Durrell, he says: "A bit like eating a box of soft chocolates." Too many writers, he feels, are munching chocolates instead of facing reality. At heart...
...century. Dowling was born to the business. But for a while he was more interested in flexing his muscles than his mind. With a strapping, oaklike physique (6 ft. 1 in.. 210 Ibs.). Dowling was a great boxer and swimmer, is one of the few ever to swim the 36 miles around Manhattan Island (time: 13 hours. 45 min.). After high school and a hitch in the Navy during World War I, he lost interest in formal education...
Symbolic of the swimming surge were the defeats of Indianapolis' Frank McKinney Jr. (son of the onetime Democratic National Committee chairman), who had been the finest U.S. backstroker in history. Last week, swimming as well as ever, the 21-year-old McKinney was twice trounced by the University of Southern California's late-blooming Charlie Bittick, who tied the American record for the 100 in 54.4, set the record for the 220 in 2:13.1. And the 2O-year-old Bittick frankly said, "I'm scared" by the times of 17-year-old Roger Goettsche...
This grey, depressing tale is saved by Author Braine's sure knowledge of his characters. He is unpitying as he sketches their fretful struggles to swim free of the muddy currents of ordinariness that surround ordinary Englishmen. Their speech rings as true as the clink of cheap teacups, their attempts at gaiety have all the poor authority of weak beer...