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then it was probably a biscuit
and a cup of coffee’, and
followed Channel rules that
forbade him to touch
anything. ‘Marathon Man
Murphy swims his way to
record,’ trumpeted the
Evening News, reporting that
he was ‘nearly run down by a
cargo ship on the Woolwich–
Gravesend leg as he swerved
to avoid another vessel’, but
he ‘will be back at his desk
tomorrow’. So would he do