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...demonstrated in '35 at the Intercollegiates by a swimmer from Iowa who swam much faster than an ordinary breast-stroker,' said Ulen. "You can get in more leg movements than with the frog kick, so it's bound to be faster. One of my breast-strokers, "Sandy" Huston, can swim faster now with the fishtail kick." Mann's proposal has so far been regarded as illegal. The rule calls for the legs to separate and describe the same movement, but although the legs move in the same manner, they are kept together in the new kick...
...center of the picture is chubby, bright-eyed, 13-year-old Judy Graves, flanked by her condescending sub-deb sister Lois, and her floppy, frog-voiced friend Fuffy Adams. To Lois life merely means Boys in all shapes and sizes; to Judy and Fuffy it means squeals and nudges, their first high-heeled shoes, their first colored nail polish, food every hour, and thinking about their parents in terms of Tyrone Power and Irene Dunne. So long as it sticks to a world in which Christmas is Heaven, 35 seems old age, and giggles serve as repartee, Junior Miss...
...Honky Tonk (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), Lana Turner, as a blue-blooded Boston babe, joins the long line of lusty ladies (Jean Harlow, Hedy Lamarr, et al.) who have joyfully succumbed to the bat-eared charms of frog-voiced Clark Gable...
...that torpedo had not turned out to be a dud, Leigh Hoadley would not today be a professor of Biology, expert in the development of frog, fish and chicken eggs, and Master of Leverett House...
Brazilian Songs (Elsie Houston with Pablo Miguel, pianist; Victor; 6 sides; $3.50). Sultry, brunette-voiced Singer Houston's inimitable way with Brazil's suave, tropical folk melodies makes this the album of the month. Her famed, tongue-twisting Dansa de cabodo (Frog Song) and primitive, wailing Berimbao (about a dolphin who transformed itself into a youth no virgin could resist) are heady as Negrita...