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...members like Franklin D. Roosevelt and Robert Benchley have tutored enterprising young Bostonians in Piano, Calculus, and the 440-yard freestyle swim. They have read texts to the blind and collected blood for the injured. They have swapped tickets to football games and sold tickets to plays; they have promoted rides to Vassar. They have done the jobs that should have been done and which nobody else would...
...engine room Chief Petty Officer Sam Hine, who had spent 20 of his 37 years in the Navy, was the senior rank present. He asked, "Who can swim?" Swimmers volunteered to give their escape gear* to those nonswimmers who had none...
...Boston Harbor Swim in 1936, '37, and '38, and again in 1946, '47, '48, and '49, setting a new course record in 48. This annual five-mile grind from L. Street in South Boston to Squantum and back provides the winner with a small purse and a large trophy in the name of the mayor of Boston. Grover has had little trouble getting the prize money for his seven victories, but last year was the first time the trophy came through...
Despite his amazing record, Grover has averaged only slightly over $2000 a year since he became a full-scale professional in 1947. Last summer, for instance, he placed in four major races: third in the 20 mile world championship at Lake Ontario in July, first in the Boston Harbor Swim in August, third in the two mile race at Lake Ontario later in that month, and first in the endurance test at Lake George in September...
...need to say how glad I am we will never have to swim against Smyly again," quoth Ulen