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...attention of Leo Handley, Women's Swimming Association coach. They have an older sister who cannot swim. Phenomenally pretty, they use much lipstick, wear clothes made by Mrs. Rompa. retire at 10 p. m. every night. Both specialize in the backstroke, of which they are among the ablest exponents in the world...
...Ruth was playing his fourth season with the New York Yankees the year she won the U. S. Women's Championship for the first time, in 1923, against nutbrown, iron-muscled Molla Biurstedt Mallory. By 1927, after Suzanne Lenglen had turned professional, Helen Wills, at 21, was admittedly the ablest amateur woman tennis player in the world. In 1929, she was presented at Buckingham Palace in a shin-length ivory satin dress, exhibited her paintings in London, won the Wimbledon title for the third time, married Frederick S. Moody Jr. So good was she that, for the sake of excitement...
...Said Baron Gottfried von Cramm, first German tennist to reach a Wimbledon final since the War, "He was very, very much too good for me." "He" was Frederick John Perry, ablest British tennist since the Doherty brothers, who, playing far better than a year ago, had won the Men's Singles Championship for the second year in a row by beating von Cramm in the final, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4. The round before, Perry had beaten Australia's Jack Crawford, Wimbledon champion in 1933, and von Cramm had beaten redhaired Donald Budge of California who, in his first...
Escapade (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the result of superimposing upon the pattern of Viennese waltz-time romance the kind of highly contemporary comedy of which William Powell is currently Hollywood's ablest exponent. That the result is mildly entertaining is thanks partly to Powell, partly to Director Robert Z. Leonard, but mostly to a totally unknown cinemactress named Luise Rainer. Miss Rainer is Leopoldine Major, private companion to an aging Viennese duchess. She is peremptorily whisked out of the obscurity of her position when a dashing young artist (Powell), compelled for reasons of gallantry to conceal the name...
...Defense. A lucid, original mind, engaging presence and quiet, incisive delivery make Bob Hutchins one of the ablest and most popular public speakers in the land. In University of Chicago's majestic cathedral-chapel last week he summed up for all liberal educators their case against the patrioteers. His rangy, athletic figure draped in silken gown and the purple hood of a Doctor of Laws, he leaned out from the pulpit to declare...