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...nice features of the arrangement at Community is that one is permitted to take two guests along; both must know how to swim. Equipment consists of dinghies only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Facilities for Golf, Sailing, Tennis Are Available for Student Athletes | 5/4/1951 | See Source »

...Lafayette (Ind.) Swim Club, team honors in the National A.A.U. women's indoor championship; in Houston, Texas. The meet's outstanding performer (and a newcomer to watch for in the 1952 Olympics): 17-year-old Mary Freeman, a George Washington University freshman, who won the 200-yd. backstroke, the 300-yd. individual medley, placed third in the 100-yd. backstroke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

After the watch, Richard and two others play hooky and head for a swim. The shift from the atmosphere of the chapel to the outdoor freshness of a spring morning is achieved in descriptive language of unusual beauty: "Everywhere among the retreating trees strayed sober clouds of evergreen and mild clouds of blossom and the dreaming laurels, and everywhere, as deep into the stunned woods as they could see, layer above unwavering layer, the young leaves led like open shale; while, against their walking, apostolically, the trees turned." The swim itself and the boyish killing of a snake afterwards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Richard's Ordeal | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

...Poonsters Take Swim...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: 12,000 Frolic; Crimson Wins Shell | 4/20/1951 | See Source »

...stucco house with "the biggest mortgage on the block." There, some 25 Di Salles of three generations 'and any number of guests converge on weekends. They devour mountains of Myrtle's antipasto, prosciutto, spaghetti, pork and chicken, and then, with a pot of caffe espresso at hand, swim for the rest of the afternoon in the warm gurgling current of Italo-American argument and gossip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: What Have I Got to Lose? | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

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