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...from U.S. Army's Redstone Arsenal, Ballistic Missile Agency, Ordnance Guided Missile School; 2 R.R. lines (Southern Ry., Louisville and Nashville R.R.); 2 airlines (8 fits, out dly., incl. drct. srvce. to N.Y., Wash., Chi., Atlanta, Miami); Accoms.: 3 hotels, 21 motels; Local bus fare: 10?; Swim: muncpl. pools; Fish: Tenn. River; Yrly. evnts.: Catholic Festival (Aug.), co. fair (Sept.); i-hr. pkng. Imt. dwntwn.; Avge. temp.: 74.6 deg. summer, 50 deg. winter...
Marijke, who will be eleven this month, has learned to swim. After many a tumble, she has mastered a bicycle, now rides it to school every day. Someone always goes with her but only to see her across the busy highway in front of the royal palace. She can read, does not require any special arrangements to keep up to her class. Soon Juliana's subjects were happily speculating about a miraculous restoration of Marijke's vision...
...darling she proved to be. Two days later, before the 880-yd. swim, Ilsa stoked up on steak, digested some Spartan advice from Family Coach Don Talbot ("Treat the second 440 as a new race, and go for your life"), and set out for glory with deep, slow strokes and a gentle-seeming six-beat kick. While fans in the stands whooped and whistled, she flashed through the second 440 in 5:12.2, sprinted the last 55-yd. lap in 35.7 and touched out in 10:17.7. The astounding announcement: Ilsa had knocked 16.9 sec. off Lorraine's world...
This season, a healthy Ilsa began a furious training regimen, got up at 5 a.m. every weekday, bicycled two miles from her home in Bankstown to a pool to swim up to 3½ miles. After school she swam another two miles. So much time in the pool's chlorinated water gave her blond hair a mermaidish green tint...
...hesitate to call it great, on grounds of immodesty." Actually almost all of it is as silly as its plot. The book is one vast notions counter of half-fashioned ideas on life, love and literature. Its central proposition is the trite one that no one can swim in the sea of life without the water wings of illusion. At its best, Some Came Running does reflect the cultural claustrophobia of small-town life and the personality quirks that sometimes go with it. At its frequent worst, it is a mishmash of joyless fornication, head-splitting hangovers...