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The Face of America: Splashy Spectacle. One hundred swimmers, churning through the pool, are taking part in an event called the "salmon run." This exhibition of youthful energy serves as a warm-up for the East-West swimming meet held yearly by the College Coaches Swim Forum at Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Here, during the winter holidays, more than six hundred college and high-school athletes and coaches convene for a seminar in aquatics on the eve of the competitive season. Once, as an opener for the East-West meet, the forum sponsors tried pitting the exuberant college stars against a pair of seals. But, as the story goes, the seals blithely swam two lengths to the boys' one, then couldn't be coaxed out of the pool. So now, as a prelude to the months of racing against one another in earnest, the collegians plunge into the water for this frolic. Photograph by Bill Shrout. ..... 1959 Saturday Evening Post Picture, A5235A. post19590228