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Oklahoma also furnished Speaker Byrns with Josh Lee. Literally Joshua Bryan Lee, his name like those of other Oklahoma Congressmen is written short on the ballot but his words are long extended, for he was the "national collegiate oratorical champion" in 1916. Something of a poet and artist, he rates today among the most effective speakers in the House. For ten months during the War his oratory was confined to a trench opposite the Hindenburg Line. Fortnight ago when the War Profits Bill was before the House, his oratory burst forth to demand nationalization of munitions plants...
Katherine Rawls is 17, 107 lb., with a boyish face, short kinky hair, the physique of a nervous minnow. Brought up in Miami, she was a prodigy at 7, a national champion at 13 and is now considered the ablest all-around female swimmer in the U. S. Last year "Minnow" Rawls was A. A. U. low-board diving champion. This year she decided not to defend her diving championship, to try for a clean sweep in four swimming events, the most any contestant is allowed to enter. The three she won were 100-yd. freestyle, 300-yd. medley...
Eleanor Holm Jarrett is the handsomest girl athlete in the world. At 19, she was Olympic backstroke champion. Last week she took a holiday from the night club where she was appearing in the floor show with her husband, Crooner Arthur Jarrett. In group photographs of girl swimmers, Eleanor Holm Jarrett can be identified as the one with the best-looking bathing suit, the darkest fingernails, the broadest smile which, through all the vagaries of her career, has remained attractively inscribed upon her face as if it were a trademark. After playing about the pool and being photographed for three...
...year ago, a glum, well-built Negro won the U. S. amateur light-heavyweight boxing championship by scoring his 34th knockout in the finals of the A. A. U. tournament. Last week in Chicago, as glum as ever, though he is picked by many experts as the next heavyweight champion of the world, Heavyweight Joe Louis continued his surprising career as a professional with his 14th knockout in 18 fights, against a thick-skulled New Jersey trial horse named Roy Lazer. At the ringside, more worried about Louis than his next opponent, James J. Braddock, whom he last week agreed...
Meanwhile in St. Louis last week, 32 boxers scuffled, danced, staggered through the last night of another A. A. U. tournament. Another Louis, Louis Nova of San Francisco, won the amateur heavyweight championship for 1935 by thrashing Joe Malinsky of Cleveland. Successor to Joe Louis, as light-heavyweight champion, was a Cleveland welder named Joe Bauer. Of the eight title-winners, four-Dave Clark (160 lb.), Al Netlow (126 lb.), Troy Bellini (118 lb.) and Bauer-were members of Chicago's Golden Gloves team (TIME, April...