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...Completed last week was the White House swimming pool, built by popular subscriptions of $15,000. Tiled in colors, 50 by 15 ft., it stands in the west wing connecting the executive offices with the main building. In accepting it, President Roosevelt revealed that he had once tried to build a similar pool but it caved in. He took a 30-min. swim before dinner - his first exercise since entering the White House...
...Took a swim with her husband in his new pool...
...thin, big-eyed, hopelessly sensitive. The ecstasies of childhood, as well as its cruel injustices, its disappointments and aching loneliness, seized him with unusual violence. Brightest moment in Poil de Carotte's summer vacation from boarding school comes when he goes to visit his uncle, who lets him swim in a cold brook and then leads him and his little cousin, wreaths of weeds in their hair, in a wild dance to the music of a concertina across broad sunny fields. At home the routine is monotonously wretched. His thieving older brother and dull sister, the mother...
...other youths smelling of liquor. But codfish begets thirst. Were these the lads to seek an appetizer? With great acumen the police searched the waters of the Charles River Basin, apparently under the impression that the Sacred Cod had transformed himself into a flying fish and gone for a swim...
...Katherine ("Minnow") Rawls, 15, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.: championships in lowboard diving and the 300-yd. medley swim, with a new world's record of 4:14.4; at the Women's National A. A. U. Championships, in Buffalo. Other titleholders: Lenore Kight, 100-yd., 220-yd., and 500-yd. free style; Margaret Hoffman, 100-yd. breast stroke.; Joan McSheehy, 100-yd. back stroke; Dorothy Poynton, highboard diving...