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Isacescu, whose record Eileen
Lee would break in 1916.
Kellerman was as well
known for her swims as for
what she wore. Aside from
wanting to swim the Channel
naked, and being made to
cover up before appearing in
front of the Prince of Wales,
in 1907, while about to do a
three-mile swim, she was
arrested on a Boston beach
for wearing her one-piece
costume – at a time when

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