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...Shou-pen and Ke Fating did not seem to understand the greeting. Suddenly Corporal Aldrich cried, "Ding ho!" Seizing Wong and Ke by the legs, he dumped them backward into the deep and muddy stream below. The Americans laughed; it did not occur to them that neither Chinese could swim...
When he came to the College in the fall of '45, he was under doctor's orders to swim for his health and took to the Freshman swimming classes in the Indoor Athletic Building pool like the proverbial duck. There his strong arm action was spotted by Varsity coach Hal Ulen, who persuaded Norris to come out for the swimming team...
Courses here "for training the kind of lads who want to plunge into the political swim, run for office, and rise to power and prestige by winning the votes of the electorate and out-smarting their competitors" were advocated last week in an editorial of the Cambridge Chronicle...
...turned their wartime savings into plane tickets for their families. But thousands are middle-aged and elderly Puerto Ricans, who sold all their possessions to raise the plane fare. Said one Puerto Rican, a university graduate who left a shoeshining job in San Juan: "If they could swim, the chickens would leave...
...tried once a month ago, setting out from Donaghadee, Northern Ireland, to swim the 25 miles across the North Channel to Scotland. He covered nearly half the distance in seven hours, but then the treacherous currents and high seas forced him to give up. Last week Tom tried again. Conditions were wretched: all night there were thunderstorms with hail and wind that whipped up four-foot waves; at dawn there were thick, swirling mists so that his escorts in motor boats sometimes lost sight of him. Fifteen hours and 25 minutes after he had left Donaghadee, Tom Blower plodded...