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...Arden, Averell learned to shoot, swim, row. ride and race trotters (he later switched to polo because of a strange allergy to horses, which affected him when he rode behind them, but not when he rode on them). In winter the family retired to a big town house on 55th Street in Manhattan, where Averell fashionably attended Craigie School and Miss Dodson's dancing class, and became a cadet in the Knickerbocker Greys. He saw the world as a prince might see it, from his father's private railroad car, from the family's yacht and from...
There is also a good deal of other assorted information, some fascinating, some obvious. Cowboys sometimes found it difficult to get about 3,000 cows to swim a river. Steak was cheap (5? a pound). The Colt six-gun was invented by Samuel Colt. Bullwhackers had deplorable vocabularies. All this may be interesting. But a thought, as troublesome as Geronimo, persists in the reader's mind that the cowboy is perhaps best left as myth. William MacLeod Raine and Clarence E. (Hopalong Cassidy) Mulford (whom the authors call a "second-rate practitioner"), or even Zane Grey, that old rider...
Then she read from some books. She read directions one how to swim, like "Don't inhale under water," quoted from the Bible, and read from "Horatio at the Bridge," explaining how Horatio swam the Tiber clothed all in armor. Meanwhile, Captain John Phair of the Yale swimming team swam the entire length of the 25-yard pool clothed all in armor--on loan, I guess, from some museum. He wore K-rations strapped around him to make up, they said, for the lack of Tiber current in the Payne Whitney pool...
Meanwhile, some girls from the Walter Reed Swim Club kept beating the Yalies, but that was because the girls were demonstrating the improvements on the old strokes the Yalies were swimming...
Finally, Yale had its day. There's a new event in swimming this year. Instead of the three-stroke medley relay, they have a four-stroke one, with both the butterfly and breast strokes. So Yale set the record in it. It wasn't a fluke. Yale is good. But the event is so new that almost any team could swim it and set a record. Even before Esther Williams got the times from the judges, she said. "The old record was ..." The whole Yale team applauded. But Miss Williams misread the times...