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...they got the basic academic courses and put in their first flying time in civilian planes. At Chapel Hill and the other Pre-Flight Schools,* academic courses continue, but the emphasis is on physical fitness. Sports stressed are those which feature bodily contact and competitive spirit; boxing, wrestling, football. Swimming is a must: every cadet learns how to abandon ship, how to free himself from a cockpit under water. All must be able to swim three-quarters of a mile with clothes...
...night patrol north of New Georgia when a Jap destroyer sliced it in two. The aft portion went up in flames. Kennedy rescued two of his crewmen, clung to the bow with them and eight others for twelve hours, towed one of the men on a three-hour swim to a small island. There they lived on coconuts for three days, then swam to a larger island, where friendly natives found them the next day, carried back to the Navy base an S O S scratched on a coconut. Back in Hyannis, Mass., informed of his son's rescue...
...things O'Nolan takes seriously is chess. He is equipped with a pocket chessboard, plays promiscuously with chance acquaintances. He has informally beaten World Champion Alekhine. He writes so easily that he grows bored with it. At Swim Two Birds, O'Nolan's first novel in English, is never concluded, just stops abruptly...
...likes, were given a most favorable turn when Playwright William Saroyan turned up in Eire on a world tour "to see if it actually was a long way to Tipperary." O'Nolan thought that showed a refreshing curi osity. Saroyan told him that a better title for At Swim would have been Sweeney in the Trees (one character, cursed by a monk, lives in a tree). Later, Saroyan sent O'Nolan $50 for the suggested title...
Last weekend, the club combined with the Radcliffe Outing Club for a bicycle trip and swim. On August 14 and 15, the club will travel the famous Wapack Trail on an overnight hike. August 21 will see another square dance in Memorial Hall, to which the whole College is invited...