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...each house on alternate weeks, but this custom has been discontinued for reasons undivulged. Every morning, however, Junior calls for his father at precisely 7:30 a. m. and they march in step to the Coryell Sr. garage, get in one of the two Coryell Packards, the Fierce-Arrow, the Cadillac or the Ford, and drive to work. They have a joint office and gold-plated telephones on the same wire. Whenever one receives a call the other picks up his receiver and listens in. It is a Coryell legend that while either Coryell is away on business a stenographer...
...national aquatic show." To publicize the aquatic show, Los Angeles Photographer Eyere Powell last week made striking photographs of Swimmer Katherine Rawls diving through the bull's-eye of a large canvas target and U. S. High-diving champion Ruth Jump flying through the air holding a bow & arrow in a "Diana Dive...
What Photographer Powell's photographs neglected to make clear to newspaper readers, who got from them the notion that U. S. fancy-diving was becoming fancier than ever, was what Diver Jump did with her weapons after being photographed with them. The bow & arrow were wired together. The click of the camera was Diver Jump's signal to drop them. By no means a novelty, the "Diana Dive" was invented by Photographer Powell in 1932, when he had Diver Georgia Coleman perform it to publicize the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles...
...According to testimony of reputable witnesses, when by means of a powerful bow which the cruiser carried, the thing was shot into the air, it had fallen ignominiously into the water. It was not even a good arrow...
...white man was a fool. He had tried to build a bird, had achieved only a dead fish, although in strict fairness, it was admitted that he might have something in the big bow, if he ever learned to make a proper arrow...