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...Morning Swim. Said Harry Truman: "When I was asked to appear here today, I began to think of my childhood and the celebrations of the Fourth of July. It was always customary in those days to read the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. . .We don't follow that custom any more, [but] I hope that everyone of you, some time today, will read that document once more...
...face of all the pious opposition, the Trois-Rivières aldermen decided that maybe the old by-law had better be enforced. That meant that, whatever their bathing costumes, boys & girls, men & wives, would swim alone-or else...
Grounds. In Miami, Stephen Contos sued his Greek-born wife for divorce because she refused to adopt the U.S. swim suit. In London, Stanley George Edwards won a divorce when he complained that his wife not only hit him with a poker, threw a bread knife at him and sprinkled tacks on the bedroom floor, but put brilliantine in his sugar...
...Offered two weeks at the Children's Aid Society summer camp, 12-year-old Mike Kivatisky, of Manhattan's upper East Side, politely declined. He explained that in Manhattan he could swim at one of the city's pools, play baseball in Central Park or a nearby vacant lot, get up when he wanted to. Said Mike: "Everything I can do at camp, I can do right down here. But here I can do it oftener...
Well-turned Aquactress Esther Williams put on a well-cut swimsuit and won coast-to-coast publicity with a denunciation of the midget-size swimsuit: "Why, they come off in the water. If you can't swim in them, what good are they...