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...stereotyped category as a producer of literary lumber. A charming, friendly, incredibly busy woman, she is a concocter of treacly yarns, a romantic who laps up travel literature (Arctic exploration, mountain climbing), a sophisticated and often rampageous wit and practical joker, an amateur actress of talent, a deadly croquet player, a dynamo of energy that can leap from typewriter to cooking pot to evening dress and back again, a wife, a mother, a chatelaine, all in one highly individual bundle...
Year ago Artist Soglow, 33, bought a farm at Ossining, N. Y., where he spends his spare time playing croquet. Tiny, he has a tiny wife named Ann, a tiny daughter named Tono. Not exclusively a smartchart illustrator, he is a political pink, has contributed many a socially-conscious drawing to the radical New Masses...
...Iowa, reads as his chauffeur drives him between communities. Des Moines hostesses call him a ''natural," conversational entertainer. A 200-lb. six-footer, he recently abandoned crutches, took an artificial leg. On the large grounds of his Des Moines home he has an elaborate court for croquet which he plays with intense fervor. Professionally Dr. Bierring's experience has been broad- postgraduate studies in Austria, Germany, and France, professor of the theory & practice of medicine at Iowa State and Drake University, and a potent officer of many a medical board...
...made any pretense at listing all the pastimes at which Miss Didrikson is about as expert as anyone of her sex, it would have to include weightlifting, wrestling, fencing, croquet, field hockey, soccer, polo, shooting, rowing, skating, bowling, pool, lacrosse, cooking. She holds the women's world record for throwing a baseball. She got her first newspaper publicity when, in a Dallas store "One look at its trim beauty and you know it has class." two years ago, she hoisted a 50-lb. weight over head. A physical freak in her ability to co-ordinate her actions with...
...girl's name, so I decided to use Will." Funnyman Rogers endorsed him: "He's shown more ingenuity already than any candidate I ever heard of. . . . This bird is smart. In fact he'll be plum out of place in Congress." A Dry, Representative-elect Rogers plays croquet...