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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half dozen or so first-class women fencers in the U. S. are not famed, but they are exceedingly well known to each other. For the past several months they have been following with surprise and concern the career of the latest addition to their minute number-Mrs. Bela de Tuscan of Detroit. Married to Detroit's best fencing master, trained as a dancer until her husband persuaded her to take up foils three years ago, Mrs. de Tuscan made sensational headway in the Olympic tryouts that have been going on all winter. Her colleagues could hardly wait...
Because the national tournament counted as the last event on the Olympic tryout schedule, Mrs. de Tuscan was able to answer both questions at once on the green linoleum strip of Manhattan's Fencers Club last week. So pretty that with a foil in her hand she inevitably creates a brief illusion of being an actress learning how to handle the weapon for purposes of some romantic musical comedy, Mrs. de Tuscan won seven of her eight bouts, fencing with superb aggressiveness. Marion Lloyd, one of the two ex-champions in the round robin, beat her, but Mrs. de...
When, in Paris, where his deluxe fencing school was on the Rue de Crenelle, swordsman Nadi heard about the fencing boom in the U. S., he pricked up his ears. In addition to promising rich dividends for teaching, it would take him closer to Hollywood. Darkly handsome, 6 ft. tall and so slim (135 Ib.) that he offers opponents a discouragingly narrow target, Swordsman Nadi, who once acted in a French film, has always wanted to go there...
Biggest attraction of the Drake Relays, as usual, was Queen of the Relays. This year she was 20-year-old, blue-eyed Jane Mareton Phelps, daughter of Vice President Zack Phelps of Krebs Pigment Co., an E. I. du Pont de Nemours subsidiary. Queen Phelps is a junior at Northwestern, where she studies music, collects old bottles, broods over her two greatest ambitions : a big wedding, a big family...
...made the tremendous investment necessary to get South American oil to market. Colombian oil fields are deep in mountainous jungles, far from water transport. Even more important in delaying Colombian developments were the involvements of Colombian concession laws. Standard's 356-mi. Andean Pipe Line from its De Mares Concession to Cartagena on the Caribbean has carried virtually all the oil Colombia has ever produced, less than 175,000,000 bbl. Most famed of Colombia's undeveloped concessions is the Barco, covering an area larger than that of Rhode Island. Originally granted to the late General Virgilio Barco...