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...York Athletic Club's swimming pool, the ablest male swimmers in the country gathered last week to compete in the Amateur Athletic Union's annual national indoor championships. After three days, eleven titles had been decided, seven records had been broken, and, from the glass-green water through which they had been splashing, three young swimmers had emerged who, in 1936, may well be competent to dispute the complete supremacy in short-distance races which Japanese swimmers established in the Olympic Games...
...Eleanor Powell is generally considered the ablest female tap-dancer in the world. She started her professional career in 1929 after her father, a Springfield, Mass., gentleman farmer, lost money in Florida real estate. Her first engagement was a 20-week vaudeville tour at $100 a week, when she was 15. Since then she has appeared in Follow Through, Fine & Dandy, two of George White's Scandals, toured in Billy Rose's Crazy Quilt. At Manhattan's Casino de Paree, where the average engagement is two weeks, she stayed...
...Edmund B. Chaffee published an "Open Letter to the President" in his Presbyterian Tribune. The Christian Century editorialized vigorously. The Department of International Justice and Goodwill of the Federal Council of Churches came out with a forthright protest to the President signed by 200 churchfolk, including some of the ablest bishops, pastors, religious editors, missionary leaders and pedagogs in the land. Rev. Harry Frederick Wrard, Union Theological Seminary professor, declared in a sermon that during the maneuvers might occur the "incident" that would bring on the Japanese war which, said he, the U. S. is courting. Finally, to the chorus...
...Gehlbach, test pilot for Great Lakes Aircraft Corp., well-known racing pilot. Collins rated him "one of the ablest in the field...
...they won all the swimming prizes at their summer camps, then permitted to bathe for pleasure only. Ruddy boys received more rigorous instruction. The youngest, Donald, now 20 and preparing for college, is a regular on the N. Y. A. C. water polo team. Joe Ruddy Jr. was the ablest swimmer and water poloist who ever attended Annapolis. Now stationed at Shanghai, he was unable to help his brothers last week. Ray Ruddy, most famed member of the family at present and usually considered the ablest water poloist in the world, is 22. He has won the President...