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...some 25 miles long, nestles in an Adirondacks cranny. Visitors are surprised to find its smooth, shadowed waters icy cold and treacherous. Having discovered that much, they must have been amazed recently to learn that it was selected as the place for a marathon to determine the fresh water swimming championship of the world. Scores of tubby natators plunged in, determined to negotiate the entire distance (24 miles) from the upper end to Fort William Henry pergola at the lower end. That meant between 15 and 30 hours in cold water nowhere over 60 degrees, in many spots 45 degrees...
...hazing" was Son Warren Badenock's recent epileptiform "baptism by fire of the Holy Spirit" and Father John Roach's quarrel with five of his deacons a fortnight ago (TIME, July 4). The newspapers were "following up" these "stories." It was incumbent upon the Stratons to swim or sink...
...whose wiles are of a more subtle order. The landing of a brook trout gives infinitely deeper satisfaction than the discomfiture of a poor political fish or fisherman. Further, there can be little doubt that the a worm are far more palatable than the big fish in the governmental swim...
...about a foot in diameter, which propels itself by opening and closing like an umbrella. This creature's interior is a dining room, playground and protectorate for as many as 300 little silvery fish. Unharmed by the host's poisonous tenacles and living on its killings, the parasite's swim in and out of its mouth at will...
...hundreds of thousands of U. S. clubwomen already know, Playboy Halliburton did swim the Hellespont, to catch up with Byron and Leander. And the dourest male skepticism will be disarmed by our hero's frank confessions that he took a taxi over the last seven miles of his race from Marathon to Athens in the very tracks of Pheidippides; that diving for sponges in the Gulf of Gabes gave him an earache...