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...inner bay. Cars were buried in sand. At Salisbury all able-bodied men were drafted to dig a ditch to divert the Wicomico River and save the town. At Scotland Beach where his cottage was washed away Missouri's onetime (1915-33) Representative Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer had to swim 200 yards for his life before he was hauled into a rowboat. At Dover the Delaware State Capitol was badly soaked. The famed du Pont Highway was closed to traffic from Dover to Salisbury when three bridges were swept away...
...Jones Beach Lifeguard team: the national lifesaving tournament; at Jones Beach, L. I. Lifeguard Henry Holmes of Locust Valley, L. I. won the Medley swim, the dive for weights, the individual boat race...
...uncle, a banker named George C. Swiler. Mr. Swiler, on Saturday, got a marriage license for the young couple and the fateful news was at last out. The night before Elliott and Anna Dall drove in from Chicago. That afternoon he and Miss Googins, refreshed by a swim, were married by a retired Congregationalist minister (the Roosevelts are Episcopalians), on the Swiler lawn overlooking the Mississippi. The bride wore white georgette crepe. The groom, who also received a ring, wore flannel trousers, camel's hair coat. Five hundred neighbors gaped through the shrubbery, but only the bride...
...William Kondrat, 18, who hitchhiked from Chatham, N. J. to see Niagara Falls: a fight against the rapids in the lower Niagara River, through which no one else ever swam though several able swimmers have been drowned trying. Carried away by the current as he was foolishly trying to swim across the river to the Canadian shore, he emerged safely after being boiled and tossed the whole length of the rapids and the whirlpool below...
...there is something in the air that will not let him sleep. There are voices high and low. They seem to swim up through the shimmering heat like the sounds of a diver talking through a sea of molasses. How stupid all this was! Just last night, or was it last night? he had been dancing with the most beautiful women in all the world. Their faces still floated around him, and he could remember the faint scent of sachet. A Junior Usher can muscle in on almost everything. They had spoken to him like dream women wrapping...