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  • 96-year-old swimmer recalls 1936 Olympic memories

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    A good read here on the Gazette. When Mary Lou Skok came across Adolf Hitler, she couldn’t see evil. She couldn’t see a man capable of murdering millions of Jews. She only saw a dictator. “He was just like Charlie Chaplin,” Skok recalled. “But he didn’t twitch his mustache.” Skok went to the 1936 Summer…