She also won her sixth Florida tournament in six weeks. Muttered one spectator: “Whatta woman.” No Muscle Moll. There is little question that Mildred Zaharias is still the world’s top woman ...

Succeeding on her eighth attempt, a typist, 26 of London, Miss Gleitz is the twelfth person and the third woman-to swim the English Channel. It has not been swum so late in the year by man or woman.

and she asked what advice she might give to a young woman who at times was exhausted by the judgment she faced from men in the sport. “She was just motivating me,” Gordon said of Wolff.