Word: championship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Homer Martin, slim, bespectacled head of the United Automobile Workers, is a preacher by training, and after he won the national hop, step & jump championship at 22 he was invariably called the "Leaping Parson." From the Leeds Baptist Church on the outskirts of Kansas City, where the deacons thought his labor gospel somewhat apocryphal, he leaped to a Chevrolet assembly line, then to leadership of a Kansas City local and finally in one tremendous leap to the front of C.I.O.'s noisiest, most turbulent union. Last week President Martin found himself in a spot from which he could...
...life with an autobiography and beginning to haggle with a publisher, many a great man waits until he nears three score and ten. Last week Mrs. Helen Wills Moody of San Francisco published her autobiography. Fifteen-Thirty*-15 for the age when she won her first National championship (junior), 30 for the age when she began to write her book...
...racquet behind him. A pigtailed, direct little girl, she took it for granted from the start that winning was synonymous with trying. She did not revise that assumption until she was 16 and found herself facing the great Moila Bjurstedt Mallory in the final for the U. S. Singles Championship at Forest Hills. Hard-driving Mrs. Mallory won in straight sets. Next year Helen Wills played in all the major preliminary tournaments in the East and when Forest Hills, the final and Mrs. Mallory came around again, she recaptured her assurance by winning in straight sets. To celebrate...
...refuses to regard her San Francisco neighbor, Helen Jacobs (to whom she lost the National Championship in 1933 by default because of a wrenched back), as an arch rival: "She was one among other players...
Helen Wills Moody is still an able tennis player as she demonstrated last fortnight when she paired with Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm to win the mixed doubles in the Pacific Southwest championship tournament from Mrs. John Van Ryn and Donald Budge. But "a stupid mechanical difficulty with a joint called the sacroiliac" persists and, as she recognizes by writing her autobiography, her tennis career is over. Today her career is on other courts: she paints (mostly still life), designs sport clothes and Lastex underwear, has lately taken a screen test, entertains in her duplex studio apartment...