Word: australian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Christina Stead is a 35-year-old Australian novelist who has been a critics' favorite, a popular failure. According to Rebecca West she is "one of the few people really original we have produced since the War." According to Clifton Fadiman she is "the most extraordinary woman novelist produced by the English-speaking race since Virginia Woolf." If readers ignore her latest novel, House of All Nations, they will have to do so in the way a pedestrian ignores a landslide in the road-by walking around...
...Walter J. Travis was the first U. S. Golfer to take the British Amateur (1904), but he was Australian born...
Engaged. Hephzibah Menuhin, 18, concert pianist and sister of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin; and Lindsay George Nicholas, son of an Australian aspirin manufacturer. Last fortnight Yehudi Menuhin made known his engagement to Lindsay Nicholas' sister, Nola...
Engaged-Yehudi Menuhin, 21, concert violinist and onetime boy prodigy; and Nola Nicholas, 19, redheaded daughter of an Australian aspirin maker. Violinist Menuhin proposed to Miss Nicholas by long-distance telephone (Holland to Melbourne...
...University tournament in the afternoon was featured by Willie Kendall's 1:40 in the 150 individual medley. However, Coach Ulen detected a poorly-disguised flutter-kick in the Australian's breastroking and promptly disqualified him. Charlie Hutter combined track with swimming by clambering out of the pool after each lap and sprinting around the edge, in a futile effort to catch Kendall. He was hampered by a buoyant attire of three life-rings and two pairs of waterwings. The medley was the only scratch event, the others being run on a handicap basis...