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...indoor swimming season finished last weekend, and the outdoor meets don't start until mid-July, but James C. Murphy '54 nonetheless dove into the Charles River last night. Murphy claims that the purpose of his swim was to retrieve a golf club thrown in by Robin Farkas...
...Perle told weeping staffers. "It was a great shock, being so sudden. [But] I suppose there was nothing else to do." For the future, Perle had news for her Washington social rival, Gwen Cafritz. She was building a new house in Washington, would plunge back into the party-giving swim next fall. "For the time being," said Perle Mesta, who is past 65, "this is the end of my diplomatic career...
...Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. Now, 45 big companies send their executives to the Greenbrier periodically for a leisurely, three-day checkup on the company (cost: $100, plus hotel-room charges). Executives may take their wives (many clients foot the hotel bill for wives too) and play golf or swim between medical examinations. Said the wife of one recent visitor: "The only time in years I have spent so long with my husband at one time was when he was at the Greenbrier...
...Angeles, health food stores were seeing lots of new customers. Some merely bought sugarless candy; others asked the storekeeper to work out a complete diet for them. A San Francisco brewery got in the swim by advertising: "Regal Pale Is the Low-Calorie Beer." In Atlanta, the Constitution's Editor Ralph McGill was punishing himself at breakfast and lunch with a trick powder, mixed with fruit juice, to kill appetite. Said McGill, 25 Ibs. lighter in 14 weeks: "I just decided to stop being silly about it and lose some of that ugly weight." His regimen still allowed...
Illness prevented world record-holder John Marshall from swimming the event. He will probably swim the 440-yard freestyle tomorrow night...