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Aileen Riggin Soule, a diver and swimmer who at age 14 became the youngest American Olympic gold medalist and later became the oldest living American female gold medalist, died Thursday in a nursing home in Honolulu. She was 96.
Biography
Allen Stack, a shy, gentle giant from Yale who won a gold medal in swimming in the 1948 Olympics, and revolutionized the backstroke, died last Sunday in his home in Honolulu. He was 71.
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