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2 days ago · Janet and Isaac kept in touch, even though he was still married to his first wife, Gertrude Blugerman – the mother of his two children. In 1970 he separated from his wife and moved in with Janet. The divorce proceedings took three years, and in 1973, when the process was officially completed, Asimov and Janet got married in a modest ceremony ...
3 days ago · Gertrude Ederle (born October 23, 1905, New York, New York, U.S.—died November 30, 2003, Wyckoff, New Jersey) was an American swimmer who was the first woman to swim (1926) the English Channel and one of the best-known American sports personages of the 1920s. Ederle early became an avid swimmer. She was a leading exponent of the eight-beat ...
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4 days ago · May 30, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. EDT. Daisy Ridley plays Gertrude Ederle in “Young Woman and the Sea.” (Elena Nenkova/Disney/AP) 4 min. ( 2.5 stars) Carrying on in the esteemed tradition of “Deep ...
5 days ago · It was intended to be a permanent gift to New York City after the 1939 Fair. Billy Rose and his “Million Dollar” Aquacade were the main tenants there throughout the fair and were a huge draw ...
4 days ago · On August 6, American Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle swam from France to England in 14 hours 31 minutes, beating the men’s record by 1 hour 59 minutes. A November 1926, article in Popular Science ...
3 days ago · Updated May 31, 2024 at 9:36 a.m. EDT. Daisy Ridley plays open-water swimmer Gertrude Ederle in the film "Young Woman and the Sea." (Vladisav Lepoev/Disney) 5 min. “Young Woman and the Sea ...
3 days ago · Age 10+. Stirring sports biopic takes on sexism, has little iffy content. “Young Woman and the Sea” is a biopic about Gertrude Ederle, who in 1926 became the first woman to swim across the ...
