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Next day, when Churchill went for a swim in blue bathing trunks, Italian photographers were hiding in nearby bushes. Police flushed them all out except one; he got some pictures, then tumbled down a slope into police range and got chased too. Churchill waded ashore, shook himself vigorously, stomped into the hotel growling: "I am not a movie star...
...glory, perhaps even a Hollywood contract, but last week she was seasick. On the Dutch luxury liner Nieuw Amsterdam, eastbound, a steward with a tempting tray knocked at her stateroom door. "Come back later, much later," moaned Shirley May. "How I wish I could get off this ship and swim the rest...
Nights Are for Sleeping. At 16, Shirley May France is too young to remember the 1920s, but she was making U.S. oldsters remember mah-jongg and miniature golf, This Side of Paradise, the Black Bottom and peephole speakeasies. Specifically, Shirley May intended to swim the English Channel, and, if possible, to break the women's record of 14 hrs. 31 min. set by Gertrude ("Trudy") Ederle in 1926. Since Trudy did it (and won a shower of Manhattan's pre-depression ticker tape),* other women have occasionally tried to beat her time. Only last week a 31-year...
...told a probate court that the once-plump Woolworth heiress was down to an emaciated 88 Ibs. and desperately needed her son Lance, 13, with her until the end of the summer. Babs's friends in Venice, on the other hand, said that she was well enough to swim at Lido Beach in a sleek black suit. Lance's father, Court Haugwitz-Revent-low (Barbara's second husband), who wants his son back in August, refused to comment. Wise by now in the ways of the law, all he would say was: "I am delighted to hear...
...transatlantic airliner, 600 miles off Ireland, when one of its engines caught fire and a propeller fell off. While the plane lost altitude, Danny and 53 fellow passengers put on life jackets. Turning back, the plane managed to reach Shannon, and Danny got into comedy again: "I can swim," he cracked, "but not 600 miles...