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Aquaplane Race (Sun. 3 p.m., MBS) from Catalina Island to Hermosa Beach, Calif., a splash-by-splash account...
...secret of Pepita. Ample tribute to his diplomatic finesse is that he "managed to keep Pepita as his mistress and Queen Victoria as his employer concurrently for nearly twenty years." When Pepita died in childbirth at 40 she left five children. Queen Victoria's namesake, Victoria Josefa Dolores Catalina, Author Sackville-West's mother, was the second oldest. Pepita's story, because she herself never speaks in it, has the atmosphere of the old silent cinema. Victoria's is well wired for sound, even some fury...
...jungle-woman who lived on bananas, coconuts, papayas. A monkey and a leopard were planted in her apartment, over her protests, until the monkey got loose, so disturbed other tenants that police were called. Miss Lamour (nee Slaton), 22, has never been nearer a jungle than the isthmus at Catalina Island, where parts of Hurricane were filmed. She is a 5 ft. 5 in., 117-lb., healthy, heavy-lipped New Orleans girl who won a beauty contest, went to Chicago, sang with Herbie Kay's orchestra on a "celebrity night" program, married...
...McLaglen (see p. 40) is Colonel of the Victor McLaglen Light Horse Troop, whose 750 members finance their maneuvers partly by promoting rodeos and midget auto races. Ralph Bellamy and Charles Farrell own the Racquet Club at Palm Springs. Minor promoters include Johnny Weissmuller (the paddle-board concession at Catalina Island) and Errol Flynn (six day bicycle races...
Died. Myrtle Huddleston, 39, first woman to complete the 20-mile swim from Catalina Island to the California mainland (1927); of heart disease; in San Francisco. During her Catalina swim she was bitten about the arms by a barracuda, landed after 20 hr. 42 min. with her left side paralyzed. In 1931 in a Manhattan pool she set a world's swimming endurance record...