Word: helene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Helen Wills began playing tennis during the War when her father, a Berkeley, Calif, physician, went to a French base hospital and left his 15-ounce racquet behind him. A pigtailed, direct little girl, she took it for granted from the start that winning was synonymous with trying. She did not revise that assumption until she was 16 and found herself facing the great Moila Bjurstedt Mallory in the final for the U. S. Singles Championship at Forest Hills. Hard-driving Mrs. Mallory won in straight sets. Next year Helen Wills played in all the major preliminary tournaments...
...refuses to regard her San Francisco neighbor, Helen Jacobs (to whom she lost the National Championship in 1933 by default because of a wrenched back), as an arch rival: "She was one among other players...
...Helen Wills Moody is still an able tennis player as she demonstrated last fortnight when she paired with Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm to win the mixed doubles in the Pacific Southwest championship tournament from Mrs. John Van Ryn and Donald Budge. But "a stupid mechanical difficulty with a joint called the sacroiliac" persists and, as she recognizes by writing her autobiography, her tennis career is over. Today her career is on other courts: she paints (mostly still life), designs sport clothes and Lastex underwear, has lately taken a screen test, entertains in her duplex studio apartment...
...record. In Westneld, Mass, lives Helen Louise Buschmann, 28, unconscious since a bus struck...
...second feature this week is entitled "Life or the Party" with Gene Raymond, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick and Joe Ponner. Inconsequental to an extreme, the picture succeeds in being very funny at times despite the hapless efforts of Mr. Parkyakarkas to add to the gaityAn average news reel and an excellent March of Time comulete the bill