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...change appears small, but to the men who wish to take occasional exercise in the gymnasium and who care nothing whatsoever about the subsequent swim, the present charge may be prohibitive. The size and private financial condition of this group is easily appreciated as one recalls the number of men who partook in the activities of the gymnasium last year without caring to pay the extra price which entitled them to the use of the pool...
Died. Dr. John George Gehring, 75, neurologist, psychiatrist; of a heart attack; in Bethel, Maine. Many a prominent U. S. businessman, lawyer and physician has consulted Dr. Gehring, taken treatment at his home in the Androscoggin Valley. Setting them to dig potatoes and swim, he relieved their nervous tension. Dr. Gehring and his "inn" were the prototype and scene of Novelist Robert Herrick's The Master...
...frail, spindly, gentle Auguste Piccard, the stratosphere is not merely a remote layer of the atmosphere. It is an environment, a kingdom, a marvelous sea in which to swim; an Olympus from which to survey Earth's glories. Last week for the second time Professor Piccard penetrated the stratosphere in a balloon. His purpose, as last year, was to study the cosmic rays. But his Shelleyesque spirit was that of a voyager revisiting a world which only he had explored...
...first Japanese victory in the Xth Olympiad was won last week in the 100-metre free style swim, when 17-year-old Yasuji Miyazaki of Tokyo, who had set an Olympic record in his semifinal heat, won by an arm's length, with Tatsugo Kawaishi. his teammate, second...
Eleanor Holm, whose swimming has not yet marred her pretty freshness with big muscles and fat, breaks a backstroke record almost every time she goes for a swim. This time it was the world's record for 100 metres, which she swam 1:18.2. A crowd of 55,000 wanted to see what would happen between Minnow Rawls and Georgia Coleman in the platform dive. Again Minnow Rawls surprised everyone: she withdrew. Georgia Coleman's running swan dive looked too short and the title went to Dorothy Poynton of Los Angeles, who wore a white bathing suit...