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woman (no one had yet
beaten Holbein’s fifty-mile
continuous swim of 1908)
and completed many
endurance swims at indoor
pools. During a forty-and-a-
half-hour swim at Dundee
Corporation Baths police had
to ‘deal with an attempt to
rush one of the doorways’
after ‘thousands were unable
to get admission’. Gleitze
travelled extensively in
Europe, the United States,