Sport: Ederle, 77

In Stuttgart, Germany, the Burgomaster, Mayor, and officials of the town, together with numerous uncles, cousins, aunts, and more distant kinsmen, welcomed Gertrude Ederle, Channel swimmer. She will next visit her grandmother—Gertrude Ederle, 77—in Bissinger, where the old lady keeps bar in her own hotel, Lamb's Inn.

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