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Into the cold waters of San Francisco Bay last week went Blackie and Buster Olds, at the same time but from different points. Trainer Roberts trailed behind Blackie, hanging on to a cord attached to his tail. When old Blackie had finished his industrious swim, not only had he beaten Buster Olds but also had come within two minutes and 31 seconds of beating the record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Sea Horse | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...them sightseeing, brings them together for dancing, singing. The department has distributed over 200,000 pamphlets, produced songs, radio programs, phonograph records, films. It runs a vacation resort, Unity House, in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains, where for as little as $19 a week union members may go to swim, sail, dance, play tennis, hear concerts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Not Bread Alone | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...know or should know, you cannot ever get your sheepskin from Harvard until you know how to swim, and so you will be taught will nilly if you are among the five per cent who don't know how to master the brine when you get here. If you are aquatically minded, swimming in the gala Indoor Athletic Building pool will lure you sooner or later, and the Crimson swimming teams, under Coach Hall Ulen, are a pride of Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Extra-Curricular Positions Await 1942 | 9/1/1938 | See Source »

Chattered Howland Spencer: "I like Divine's ideas. He is a great constitutionalist. ... I thought of the steamboats that will bring thousands of colored people from New York to swim in the Hudson here and have picnics on the hills, and it sort of amused me. . . . Whether we meant it or not, this really will annoy Franklin a great deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Black Elbow | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...Gertrude Ederle's famed swim across the English Channel (23 miles) took 14½ hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Maiden Voyage | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

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