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...Dollar Mermaid (MGM) is a splashy musical that casts Cinemermaid Esther Williams as Annette Kellerman, the foremost amphibian attraction of the early 1900s. The picture takes Annette, who is described as "half woman and half fish," from Sydney, Australia to London, where she makes a much publicized 26-mile swim down the Thames; then to the New York Hippodrome, where she is billed as a diving Venus in tank extravaganzas; and finally to Hollywood, where she is badly injured during the filming of an underwater picture. For romance, there is a conventional (and fictional) triangle involving the Hippodrome...
Sophomore Ted Whatley and junior Marv Sandler will swim the distance events today. Pete Dillingham at the div and Ken Emerson and Ralph Zani at the breast stroke finish the opening lineup...
...swept the waters, and Davis, unwilling to risk taking the narrow passageway into Rapa Harbor, anchored a mile off-shore. In the Miru's dingy, Arrow attempted to row to shore, but was swamped 400 yards away from land. With the dinghy's rope between his teeth, he started swimming for shore--until he saw a sizeable group of sharks starting to swim in the same direction. He frantically bailed out the boat, and made the beach a few yards ahead of the sharks...
...only reasonable defense that the College administration can offer for its percent "sink-or-swim" attitude is the fact that "almost all of our students are accepted at medical schools." This excuse sinks of its own weight, for nobody in the administration has any exact idea of what percent of Harvard pre-meds fall short in the Great Quest. Nobody in the administration knows which students fail to get into medical school, or, what is worse, why they fail. The mistakes, apparently, are buried...
...years ago, Dunbar W. Bostwick sadly contemplated Chris Spencer, his eight-year-old trotter. Soon after setting a track record of 3 min. 10½ sec. in the 1½-mile Gotham trot, the aging gelding had gone lame and looked finished. But Optimist Bostwick had observed that trotters swim at a trotting gait. He reasoned that Chris might get back his bounce if he could exercise his legs without jarring them on a hard track...