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...Babe Didrikson Zaharias, who first achieved national fame in 1930 when she played on the Golden Cy-clones Championship Girls' Basketball team of the Employers' Casualty Insurance Company of Dallas. She moved into the international spotlight in 1932 by winning the javelin throw and 80-meter hurdles at the Olympics in Los Angeles. In 1947, she won 17 straight golf tiles before turning professional. The Associated Press voted Babe the greatest female athlete of the first half of the twentieth century and, also, named her the woman athlete of the year...
...autobiography This Life I Have Lived, she explained that all her life she wanted to do things better than anyone else. She liked to win, and, to insure success, she trained hard for whatever contest she entered. But it was not only in sports that Babe Zaharias strove to excel. While in school, she had to make a dress in sewing class and determined it should be the best. Her dress was the winner of the State Fair of Texas. She also won a gold medal in school for the best speed in typing...
...dropped, along with the test tubes she was carrying. Martin summoned up the dopeyest basset hound-Pat Paulsen deadpan he could imagine until she finally realized he was kidding (Thank God! Man, what a sober little babe!) and began to laugh. So did Martin and, to his discomfort, the entire biology...
...next, and the result is just as satisfying in its own way. Unexpectedly bending and holding notes like a crooner, Dylan gave a lyric, wistful quality to the traditional Irish ballad, Wild Mountain Thyme. He introduced no new songs, but older ones like It Ain't Me Babe, once intoned in harsh, jagged phrases, took on new colors and a smoother flow...
...early '20s, though, the city that had worshiped him began to shift its fealty to the forerunner of today's independent, iconoclastic superstar: the Yankees' Babe Ruth. McGraw became increasingly irascible and began to lose the iron grip he had always held on his players. Finally, in 1932, he turned over the Giants' reins to one of his own rebels with whom he had fought so bitterly, First Baseman Billy Terry. He died two years later...