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Then he went for his afternoon swim, got dressed. His personal secretaries and Secretary Morgenthau sat down with him to dinner. Afterwards he went up to his study, talked to the Capitol by telephone. At 9:30, with an array of microphones before him on his desk, he spoke to the Young Democrats of America. When he finished he called the Capitol again. The news of adjournment was not so good. It got worse. In the Senate the matter of cotton loans was the slip that had come between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Cup & Lip | 9/2/1935 | See Source »

...latter is used to teach men how to swim since that is one of the requirements for a degree. The larger pool is believed to be the fastest in the country and was the scene of many records last spring when the N. C. A. A. meet was held there. The water in both pools is kept at a constant temperature of 72 degrees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Largest Athletic Establishment in the World Awaits Formal and Informal Use by Students | 9/1/1935 | See Source »

...Nanking and the flooded valley of the Yangtze River. They were driven down by darkness in Alaska, by fog in Japan; they were lost, went hungry, almost wrecked, were caught in a burning building, discovered a stowaway in their plane, were nearly mobbed by famished Chinese, had to swim for their lives in the dangerous Yangtze when their plane went over. Last week Anne Morrow Lindbergh, in a disarmingly modest record of the flight, apologized that it had not been more exciting as an adventure, of greater value scientifically, or of more significance geographically, prefaced her book with a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lindbergh & Lindbergh | 8/19/1935 | See Source »

...much alike that they are usually mistaken for twins. They both have secretarial jobs, doctor sweethearts, a taste for radio concerts which leads to bickering because Erna prefers Wagner, Elizabeth Tchaikovsky. Daughters of a German mining engineer who arrived in the U. S. eleven years ago, they started to swim at Manhattan Beach in 1928 when their father got a job as night clerk at a nearby hotel. A lifeguard observed their talent, brought them to the attention of Leo Handley, Women's Swimming Association coach. They have an older sister who cannot swim. Phenomenally pretty, they use much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Salt Water Sorority | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

That Mary was the only Hoerger who justified headlines last week must have been a profound disappointment to her mother, who has reared her girls as if they were guppies. As soon as her children were three months old, she tossed them into the water. All three could swim before they could walk. The backyard of the Hoerger home at Miami Beach is a swimming pool. The front yard is the Atlantic Ocean. When not swimming at home, Hoergers swim in more de luxe surroundings, the famed Miami Biltmore pool, where Mrs. Hoerger is swimming instructor. Their father, Fred Hoerger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Salt Water Sorority | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

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