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...that a midget really needs in the Sound's top event for young sailors is a boat of the 19-ft. Lightning class, good sense about sailing fundamentals and, for emergencies, the ability to swim. The 13 competitors at New Rochelle's Huguenot Yacht Club last week had a bit more than that. They were the individual champs of 13 yacht clubs and several of them had raced for the Scovill Cup before...
Florence's plan for conquering the Channel was fairly simple: just to get in and swim "as fast as I can." Her father, a retired San Diego policeman, and Trainer Henry Gunter agreed. They had watched her win the 2½-mile race at La Jolla, Calif, ten times in 18 years; they thought she had the power and stamina for the Channel grind...
Some Confusion. Congressmen's heads began to swim. "There is confusion," the Republicans' Earl Michener shouted. "There is confusion on the floor...
Some 15,000 swim-happy fans fell tensely silent as the starter for the crucial 400-meter free-style event barked "Yoi [get set]!" Crouched alongside Marshall and Furuhashi were two other champion-caliber swimmers: the Hawaiian-born Nisei, Ford Konno, who had broken the world's 1,500-meter record the day before, and the U.S. Olympic ace, Jim McLane. They hit the water in unison...
...there were changes in his crowded routine. His calling list still included old cronies from Kansas City but the unlisted callers were more important. Secretary of State Acheson and Defense Secretary Louis Johnson dropped in almost at will. Every morning at 9-after the walk, after the breakfast swim and massage-he got a briefing from J.C.S. Chairman Omar Bradley (see cover). And he had issued orders to ring the telephone beside his bed at any time of night if there was important news...