Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...return to Hollywood to recruit a crew of fake lumberjacks with enough courage to do what real lumberjacks are supposed to do. Included in the uproar concerning production of Come and Get It was the story which billed Actress Andrea Leeds as Hollywood's "kiss champion'' after she had spent more than nine hours kissing three young actors to test their ability to play the role of her fiancé in the film. Winner was tall, tennis-playing Francis Xavier Shields. In the course of the picture, he and Actress Leeds (Barney's daughter) kiss neither...
...sons, Herbert Haseltine, also came to Harvard graduating with the Class of 1899. This son, inheriting his father's gifts, is now perhaps the leading animal sculptor in America, his exhibition of "British Champion Animals" at the Fogg in 1934 gaining much attention. One of his works is still on exhibit in the Harvard Museum...
...more interest than any previous annual gathering of H men. The dinner has been arranged by Richard C. Floyd '11, president of the Club, who has named Leo H. Leary '05 as the toastmaster and has arranged for an excellent list of speakers including Gene Tunney, former heavyweight boxing champion; William J. Bingham, Richard C. Harlow, and Thomas Bolles, newly appointed head coach of Harvard rowing...
...national amateur championship, scores by Mexico's best golfers and a dozen U. S. visitors were almost as high as Mexico's best golf course. The medal went to Percy J. Clifford, Mexican-born Briton, for a 75. Johnny Goodman of Omaha, onetime U. S. Open champion, was a stroke worse. A 91-which a first-class golfer would not even bother to post in a U. S. national tournament-qualified one M. Roberts of Dallas. In the first 18 holes of the Goodman-Clifford final, Goodman smashed the course amateur record with a 66. Score...
Expert Winton proudly pointed to an official mark of 360 eggs, set by a Corvallis, Ore. Leghorn in 1934-35. Questioned further, he consulted his records, discovered that the official world's champion was a Black Orpington which laid 363 eggs in New Zealand...