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Married. Helene Emma Madison, 24, famed free-style swimmer, 1932 Olympic champion in the 100-and 400-metre races; and Luther C. Mclvor, builder of Wenatchee, Wash.'s Rock Island Dam; at Wenatchee. Breaker of many records before she turned professional in 1932, Swimmer Madison made a film in Hollywood (The Warrior's Husband), went home to Seattle disillusioned, sold hot dogs to pay her way through nursing school...
Married. Genevieve Garvan Brady, 52, widowed Papal Duchess, most prominent U. S. Roman Catholic laywoman (TIME, Feb. 22); and William J. Babington Macaulay, 44, Minister to the Vatican from the Irish Free State; by Archbishop John Gregory Murray of St. Paul, Minn.; in Manhattan, after which they sailed for Italy...
Figure skating tournaments are divided into free skating, in which competitors execute their own specialties, and school figures, selected by lot from 42 standard maneuvers with which all figure skaters are supposed to be familiar. Experts consider Champion Colledge's free skating repertoire more difficult than Sonja Henie's, especially her double-revolution jump which no other woman skater has ever tried in competition. Her next appearance on ice will be an exhibition at the Toronto Skating Carnival next week...
Sired by a national champion, Air Pilot, whose own sire, Muscle Shoals Jake, had also won at Grand Junction, Air Pilot Sam has taken seven major stakes this season, including the U. S. All-Age at Holly Springs, Miss. last month, the National Free-For-All Championship and Canada's Saskatchewan Prairie Chicken Trials and Dominion Championship. Sam showed his mettle at Grand Junction last year. During an exercise run for the benefit of MARCH OF TIME cameramen, he collided with a pack of darky dogs in pursuit of a rabbit, was ganged, had a collie's fang...
...Reuben who put the company into air conditioning. Progress was slow. As late as 1920 there were only 40 on Trane's payroll, only 159 by 1927. Today the total is nearly 1,000. On the day the new plant was opened last month with speeches, dancing and free beer, all the La Crosse employes chipped in to buy a half-page newspaper advertisement, surprising their boss with a THANK YOU, MR. TRANE...