Monday, Dec. 31, 1923
Ice Cream, Soup
One wonders if Lillian Harrison demands ice cream and soup after swimming. Last week Lillian swam the river Plate for the first time in history. Starting from Uruguay she navigated obliquely 30 miles (in 24 hrs. 19 min.) to the Argentine shore.
Enrique Tirabocchi, who swam the English Channel last Summer, failed in the Plate. Henry Sullivan, Lowell, Mass., took five hours longer to swim the Channel than Lillian took to swim the Plate. Yet he was strong enough to march to the nearest restaurant for ice cream and soup. Details as to what Lillian asked for after her swim was done are lacking.
Lillian, 20 years old, is of Anglo-Argentine parentage.