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When I was at Manchester, where there was a modern swimming pool, I was looked on as a great man, not for so trivial a reason as being an FRS, but because I used to dive off a five-metre board.
Louis J. Mordell
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Louis J. Mordell
Age: 84 †
Born: 1888
Born: January 28
Died: 1972
Died: March 12
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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Louis Joel Mordell
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