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...cremation on the beach. "Is that a human body?" asked Byron. "Why, it's more like the carcass of a sheep." Shelley's brains, "cupped in the broken cranium," seethed and boiled as in a cauldron for a long time. Byron felt sick, went for a swim. Driving home, Byron and Leigh Hunt felt a "hysterical gaiety . . . drank in the carriage . . . sang and shouted like men possessed...
...Army announced that it was training a picked shock troop. Called Commandos (Boer for the personnel of military and semimilitary expeditions against natives), this mystery unit was being toughened by long marches on skimpy rations, being taught to read maps, get through barbed wire, navigate vessels, swim in full battle equipment, handle all sorts of weapons and explosives, even master the pressure points of jujitsu...
Three yips and a yipe! Yes, sir, the season's open! Amid loud cheers and yells, Harvard's Polar Bear Club broke the ice late Sunday evening at its first official outing of the year--a swim in the ocean at Revere Beach...
...rare bright spells Jane, so rain-weary she wanted to leave, slipped into a dark red swim suit, plunged into chilly Lake Crescent. Sometimes she chopped wood for the fireplace. For exercise the Secretary took hikes among the giant trees, where the wet ferns grow head-high and the epochs-old windfalls of trees are 50 feet high and as solid as a stone fort. Once they went salmon fishing-a pure public-relations gesture from Honest Harold, who loathes the water and once grumbled at riding on the President's yacht Potomac with a crack...
Wherever Hitler and Mussolini surveyed their cause last week there were signs that their enemies were beginning to swim against the tide of Axis success...