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Next morning, the President downed a breakfast of grapefruit, a four-minute egg, toast & coffee, put on two shirts (wool over cotton) and, despite chilly weather, hiked along the Key West sea wall before the town was awake. The drizzle ruled out his swim at Truman Beach, but he spent the morning indoors beside the phonograph, listening to Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, Chopin's Polonaise and Brahms's Symphony...
...released, they will reach the sea quickly, dodging the many dangers that await their wild cousins on their journeys down long rivers. When they return from the sea, grown to full salmonhood, they won't have to waste their strength and flesh on battling the rapids. They can swim right into their home farms-and into tin cans...
...Refuse a try at the Channel swim...
...from some ministry shows up with hundreds of forms in triplicate (red tape in Socialist governments). Then the army invades with tanks and 245 soldiers (national emergency over uranium egg). And last but not least, the Navy and the Air Corps patrol the farm because a duck can also swim...
Gertrude Ederle, now 44, was the first woman to swim the English Channel, in 1926. Since then, a dozen women have followed in her wake from France to Britain. Last year a 31-year-old stenographer from San Diego named Florence Chadwick topped the Ederle record by swimming the distance in 13 hr. 20 min. (TIME, Aug. 21, 1950). But until last week no woman, and only nine men, had ever swum the Channel eastward from Dover to Cap Gris-Nez, the 21-mile stretch which, like a cat, hates to be stroked the wrong...