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...pleasant, upon a sunny day, to motor the 26 mi. between Paris and Corbell; not so pleasant on a rainy day; still less pleasant to walk. But to swim from Corbell to Paris in the dirty brown Seine, famed swimming-pool for suicides-to swim at 2 in the morning, with the water algid, and rain stabbing the darkness...
Miss Lillian Harrison, Argentine swimmer training to swim the English Channel, last week performed this feat as part of her training. She entered a marathon swim from Corbell to Paris, one woman in a field of eleven men. Two black Senegalese swimmers, accustomed to the tepid rivers of Afria, turned saffron, then green with cold, left the race. T. W. Burgess, Englishman who swam the Channel in 1911, followed suit. One by one the giant swimmers quit until only five were left, among them stout-hearted Miss Harrison. At the Austerlitz Bridge she had cramps; at the Chamber of Deputies...
...Grakelow will lead the parade in which each represented lodge will prance in its own original uniform. Grand Exalted Ruler John G. Price of Columbus, O., will come with an escort on a special train chartered by Detroit lodge No. 34; the Elks will climb snow-capped peaks, swim on Oregon beaches, visit big sawmills, wear reunion buttons...
...this as part of her training course. She is training to swim the English Channel. And, two days later, she sailed for England on the Berengaria...
Last week, inhabitants of the piscatorial world swimming to and from their affairs near Cocos Island, northeast of the Galapagos Group (Pacific Ocean), beheld with interest two creatures new and strange. They were black, forked objects about the size of young sea cows, with globular heads, baggy, wrinkled trunks and clublike arms, plodding with ponderous feet over the ocean floor. They had no apparent purpose and blew endless streams of bubbles as they went. Each monster stared about him through one enormous glassy eye. To their heads were attached trailing rubbery tubes like skeins of attenuated umbilical cords, stretching down...