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...King Levinsky" was a notable clown among the heavyweights (and lasted 141 seconds with Joe Louis), was picked up in Detroit for Chicago detectives who wanted to talk to him about a holdup. Now 33, he says he sells neckties for a living.*Katherine Rawls, 26, greatest all-round woman swimmer before the war, was expected back home in Florida by Husband Theodore H. Thompson, who sued her for divorce and then dropped it as "a misunderstanding on my part." She has been a Women's Auxiliary Service flyer stationed at Detroit, but Thompson said she would now concentrate...
Both the House and V-12 league are still being led by Dunster House, according to league standings in touch football, volley ball, baseball, and softball, announced yesterday by Adolph W. Samborski, director of intramural athletics. Dunster's all-round scores total 300 points with Adams in second place with 272 1/2 points...
...with top-flight memories for the gallery is likely to be 30-year-old veteran Sidney Wood. Two favorites for National Championship honors are the two-hander Francisco Segura of Ecuador and southpaw Seymour Greenberg, graduate of the public parks. At their best, none of these can touch the all-round brilliancy of Big Bill Tilden or Fred Perry, the pyrotechnic power of Ellsworth Vines, the high-gearing of Donald Budge. It will be a season of ghosts and neophytes, with the color and substance on the side of the ghosts...
...turret-gunner in a Martin Marauder, stubby, husky Staff Sergeant Clifford R. Wherley of Elmwood, Ill. has made 21 sorties against the enemy, won the Air Medal with three oakleaf clusters, been an all-round good fighting man. But in North Africa last week his career was ended...
...last week's meet, the Sokols and Turners outnumbered all other entries. For the fourth year, the Philadelphia Turners' chunky, bespectacled Pearl Nightingale flew off with the women's all-round championship. Only on the balance beam, where contestants go through nerve-racking slow-motion acrobatics, was Champion Nightingale bested by any rival. The men's all-round title went to stocky little Arthur Pitt of the Swiss Gymnastic Society of Union City...