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...first sport to be commented upon is swimming, which enjoys the facilities of one of the fastest pools in the country. Everybody who comes to Harvard tries out the pool once. If you can swim, just up the pool and back, you don't have to go near the place again, but if you can't you'll have to learn...
...stitched on a U. S. flag. He summoned police, who stopped the bearer, a white woman called Fair Angel, directed her to take the flag back to the boat. Later, on the premises of the "Promised Land" where Father Divine was watching a few of his followers swim in a pool whose outhouses were marked for SISTERS and BROTHERS, the police .asked for the flag, got only the little cultist's soft reply: "I am bringing peace to everyone, even if they don't want...
...reminds me of the beautiful Russian Crimea," Comrade Troyanovsky told Bay Ridgers. "It reminds me," cried Minister Youssef, "of Rås el-Barr beach in Egypt at the mouth of the Nile. The shallow water suits me because I don't swim, although I like to float. Don't call me 'Excellency' or use my title 'Bey.' Just call me Mr. Youssef." Bay Ridgers soon discovered that Ambassador Troyanovsky serves tea and tinfoil wrapped Soviet candies to almost any caller, that Minister Youssef, although a teetotaler, is good for a Scotch and soda...
...Hubbell of the fourth generation of a wealthy Des Moines real estate and insurance family was dead of infantile paralysis. Seventeen other St. Mark's boys were known to be stricken, eight of them after they were removed from school. All are suspected of having taken an unseasonable swim, like paralyzed Franklin Roosevelt, in chilly water. Four of the seventeen showed some degree of paralysis. How many other children were taken sick last week in other schools and homes where public inquisitiveness pried less sharply, will not be known for about a month when medical reports will have traveled...
...darling of effeminate young men, the envy of dowagers, old Lady Mendl claims to have won the title of the World's Best Dressed Woman at a cost of only $15,000 a year. She dyes her hair green, blue or pink and learned how to swim free-style at past 60. Three years ago she swam to shore when a friend's speedboat caught fire off the Riviera. Said she then: "Ten minutes' work with the fire extinguishers was the only manual labor most of the men had done in their lives." She made an exception...