Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The August 1925 issue of Time Magazine tells of the 1925 meeting of two International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame inductees: Argentinian Lilian Harrison and Egyptian Ishak Helmy: A young Harrison was garmented heavily in grease…and slipped into the sea from Cape Griz Nez [in France]. A hailstorm struck …

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