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Best description of Freak McGrath's technique, written before he had really proved his capabilities beyond winning the under-21 championship of Australia without losing a set, was published last spring in American Lawn Tennis. Excerpts...
...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 her eye, Miss Didrikson is not freakish in appearance. Now 19, she weighs 126 lb., has slim hard wrists and ankles, long spatulate hands. No one person is greatly responsible for her proficiency in heterogeneous sports. Her manager and coach, Melvin...
Bearing in mind the example of Iowa's Republican Senatorial nominee, independent Henry ("Himself") Field, both of Kansas' regular gubernatorial candidates are unpleasantly aware of the potency of a freak campaign equipped with a private radio station. Another who dreaded that capric Candidate Brinkley might win was Editor William Allen White of the Emporia Gazette. Fearfully he editorialized...
...fast ranged from official British announcements that he was being fitted with a new set of false teeth to the instinctive act of a British showman who cabled Mr. Gandhi a cash offer to come to England and starve unto Death as a sideshow freak. "Your case, right or wrong," cabled Showman Luke Gannon, "will then be understood by the people of England...
...scientist enlarges from the slow of this strange freak of Evolution to the consideration of Evolution as a whole and of life itself. And prodded by the other's worried questioning, he tells his theory of the cause of Evolution, that it was purely a series of accidents things and developments that just happened. But the priest doesn't find this solution satisfactory, it does not tie up with his belief in a personal God and a great purpose behind life. Finally the scientist is led on to define his won theory of vital forces, which he conceives as whirlpools...