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Alice Lord-Landon, a pioneer in women's swimming and a one-time world record holder in the 400-meter freestyle, is dead at 98.
Ms. Lord-Landon, a member of the first women's Olympic swimming team in 1920, died Thursday in Ormond Beach, Fla., following a brief illness.
"Alice was the grande dame of the Olympians," said Dorothy Franey Langkop, executive director of the U.S. Olympians and a skater in the 1932 and 1936 Winter Olympics. "Alice was the only woman allowed to...