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...Landon has no idea this book is contemplated; neither has any friend of his." Although made up in good part from articles Emporia's White has written for the Press, including his piece on Landon for the Saturday Evening Post, What It's All About is the ablest piece of political pamphleteering yet evoked by the campaign...
...Singles Championship four times in a row (a record), but in each of these years she has been beaten at Wimbledon. This year, for the first time, she won there. If she wins at Forest Hills this week, she will at last be recognized as the ablest ten-nist of her sex in the world, a satisfaction that has eluded her for ten years. Last week the forecasts of tennis experts made her an overwhelming favorite...
...when debate about the sex of a Japanese broad jumper named Hitmoni did not end until she was ungraciously described in an official statement as "It." In Berlin famed Ted Meredith, onetime (1912) Olympic champion runner, now coaching Czechoslovakian girl athletes, related the sad case of his ablest sprinter, who qualified for the Olympics in record-breaking time, then decided to turn male. Said gloomy Coach Meredith: "I argued with her but lost the decision. She is now a male athlete. There are many cases like this in Central Europe...
...beans, go in heavily for dancing. That this process is eminently successful, Dutch trainers feel to be conclusively proved by the fact that Swimmer Mastenbroek, whose hobby is cooking, weighs a mere 150 Ib. while 18-year-old Willy den Ouden, until last week rated the world's ablest girl free-style swimmer, as yet shows few signs of outgrowing her 242-lb. mother...
Actually, the U. S. always wins the Olympic Games because its entrants are not only ablest, but most numerous. To arrive at some sort of basis for comparison, sports writers long ago invented a system for tabulating all events on the basis of ten points for first place, five for second, four for third and so on down to one for sixth. Graded by this system, the first six countries in men's track & field events, after eight days of competition, were last week as follows: U. S. 203 points Finland 80½ points Germany 69¾ points Japan...