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...porches of hotels awaiting their chance to go to the front again. Tanks can crush British bodies, but nothing seems able to crush their spirit. In one hospital there is a young Tommy who won great fame as one of England's best swimmers. He will never swim again. Both his legs have been amputated. Yet he is happy to be alive and thinks he is luckier than most because he has just received a letter with news that his wife got a job as postmistress in their Surrey village. Cairo is full of men made of the same...
Lanoue claims that sailors could jump feet first through the flames, swim as long as they could under water (swimming for his life, a man might make 100 yards without air), then spring above the flames to breathe, taking a breast stroke to push flames away, and sink and swim again. Thus a man could navigate up to 200 yards of burning oil. Only time Freddie has been singed was when he had on a shirt and an air bubble inside it kept him too long above the surface...
...last week nobody on the Rockefeller side of the fence had any fight left anyway. From now on R.K.O. will sink or swim at Floyd Odium's orders...
Last fortnight, the luck ran out. During the filming of a shark-octopus battle, Jacare was spilled from the tricky jangada. Though he managed to swim away, he was caught in a treacherous current and, like his fisher-father before him, swallowed...
...broken playing soldier with his older brother at the age of four. He grew up muscular, and he was all the neighbors' friend. The people of Carlsbad used to send for Joe Stanley when there was a drowning in the Pecos River, and Joe Stanley would go and swim strongly and take out the body. He had a big black dog, he liked to dance and he would box with anyone just for fun. He married a girl whose name was also Smith, and they had a baby, and the baby had three grandmothers all named Smith...