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Hearken, friends, it is a story droP Of Gypsy Gorman, Spanish, chorus girl, Who wed for love, of course he had a roll, And tried to swim the social whirl. Jimmy Ralston was the wealthy swain Who wed this, Jewish, chorus dame; For act and act he tries in vain His Mother's wrath to fully maim...
Five dawns later, a large woman floundered stupidly in the tide-rips off Point Vicente. She had been swimming all night. Her breast and left arm had been lacerated by a savage barracuda.† For a quarter of an hour, while her body lolled like a dying squid, she babbled idly among the waves. From a small boat nearby, her 11-year-old son called out anxiously. Men's voices growled advice. The large woman, momentarily dazed by exertion, then remembered she was Mrs. Myrtle Huddleston, proprietor of a Long Beach, Calif., beauty parlor. Four months ago she could...
...Miss Bauer first began to swim. She went to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) ; broke a few world's records for the I. A. C. She went to the Olympic Games in Paris in 1924; broke a few more. In five years she had shattered every women's world record (23 of them) in the backstroke between 100 yards and a quarter mile...
...Swim. Muscular women in snug suits swam lustily at the Women's National A. A. U. indoor championships in Buffalo last week. Three of them broke four world's records: Agnes Geraghty went through 220 yards of water in 3 min. 20 sec.; Adelaide Lambert swam 300 yards in 4 min., 34.4 sec.; Martha Norelius swam 400 yards in 5 min., 14 sec.; 500 yards...
Nassau citizens talked of giving Mr. Havemeyer a medal, but not because Nassau harbor is "shark-infested" as newspapers said. Medal or no, Mr. Havemeyer, who denied he was a hero, was content. He had had "one last swim." Only at night do sharks frequent Nassau harbor. And when they do come in from the ocean, they are sand sharks; scavengers, not killers. On moonlight nights they may be seen and heard, huge but probably harmless, lurking and feeding near the piles of the town slaughterhouse. Once there was a monster that Nassau called "The Harbor Master." At the buoy...