High-Diving Priest Sets New Record at Marne River
Saone priest Rev. Robert Simon, longtime high diving exhibitor, set a new height record totaling funds for church rehabilitation. He leaped 128 feet from a tower into the Marne at Nogent sur Marne near Paris, continuing a yearly fund raising water carnival begun in 1947.
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