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...lively as a sandpiper, flits in and out of restaurants and nightclubs picking up tidbits on kings, stars, villains and dog-biters. His office files bulge with more than 20,000 of their names from A (Fred Allen, Konrad Adenauer, Dean Achesoh) to Z (Darryl Zanuck, Vera Zorina. Babe Didrikson Zaharias). The names are his cast of characters in anecdotes which are interrupted only by items of news and occasionally "the kind of gossip that doesn't hurt anyone." A typical Lyons anecdote: "I owed the Trumans a dinner, for they had been our hosts on that memorable last...
...Babe Didrikson Zaharias...
Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson Zaharias took the news as calmly as she takes one of her rare setbacks on a golf course. "I'll beat it," she said. The doctors had just told her that she had cancer. Before she went under anesthesia for a three-hour operation less than four months ago, husband George Zaharias told the Babe, "Honey, we'll be at Tam O'Shanter this year." Last week, with doctors marveling at her recuperative power (the Babe calls it "spiritual muscle"), she was back on the golf course playing in Chicago...
Texas turns out golfers of a perfectionist and fiercely competitive strain, e.g., Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson, Babe Didrikson Zaharias. This week Texans were talking about a trim (5 ft. 6 in., 133 Ibs.), professedly lazy 19-year-old girl who appears to be neither a perfectionist nor fiercely competitive, but whose name is already on a lot of golf trophies. It is a name that Texans expect soon to be known to the outside world: Lesbia Lobo of San Antonio...
...Babe Didrikson Zaharias, the famous woman athlete who was removed from competition a month ago by a cancer operation, may return to golf by October...