Gertrude Ederle
Gertrude Ederle gained much notoriety back in 1926 as she became the first woman to swim the English Channel in 1926. It took her 14 hours and 34 minutes to reach Kingsdown, Kent. Up until Florence Chadwick’s 13-hour and 10-minute swim across the English Channel in 1950, her mark stood. In the same way as Burgess did in 1911, Ederle donned motorcycle goggles to shield her eyes from salt water. Although she used crawl instead of breaststroke, Burgess utilized breaststroke, so she had her goggles paraffin-sealed to make them waterproof.
Gertrude Ederle
Clint Eastwood
Here is a rare photo of Hollywood film star Clint Eastwood water skiing. The “Man with No Name” in Sergio Leone’s “Dollars Trilogy” of spaghetti westerns during the middle of the 1960s and antihero cop Harry Callahan in the five Dirty Harry movies throughout the 1970s and 1980s propelled him to international prominence after finding success in the Western TV series Rawhide. Eastwood has become a perennial cultural image of masculinity in part because of these roles and others. Eastwood, who was chosen as mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, in 1986, held the position for two years.
Clint Eastwood
