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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Lenore Kight, 22, fastest U. S. woman swimmer; and Cleon J. Wingard, 24, Pittsburgh physical education teacher; in Wellsburg...
...young cinema executives by playing tennis with them. In the three major tournaments he has entered this summer, Shields has indicated that he is, if anything, a shade better than he was a year ago, when he was ranked No. 1. He hits the hardest serve and probably the fastest forehand drive in tennis, suffers from a temperamental inability to take the game more seriously than any other pastime which he finds agreeable...
...latter is used to teach men how to swim since that is one of the requirements for a degree. The larger pool is believed to be the fastest in the country and was the scene of many records last spring when the N. C. A. A. meet was held there. The water in both pools is kept at a constant temperature of 72 degrees...
...light to amber in two seconds. Thereafter, at an unpredictable interval, the amber light turned red. As soon as he saw the red light the subject removed his foot from the accelerator, applied the brake. The time interval was electrically measured. The average reaction time was .43 sec. The fastest was .26 sec. The slowest was .90 sec. It was found that tall persons generally react a little more slowly than short people, no doubt because motor nerve impulses travel through the body at about 300 ft. per sec. and thus for tall persons the motor impulse would take longer...
...bucktoothed, towheaded 11-year-old named Mary Hoerger won the springboard diving championship. Powerful Lenore Right of Homestead, Pa., fastest woman swimmer in the U. S.. broke two world records (mile and 880-yd. freestyle). Georgia Coleman, Olympic springboard diving champion in 1932, was on the sidelines, judging, as was the girl who swam across the English Channel in 1926, Gertrude Ederle. To take the place...