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...13/22 points Great Britain 43 1/11 points Canada 22 1/11 points By last week, the track & field events were finished. No. 1 hero of the world's No. 1 sports event was a Cleveland Negro named Jesse Owens. No. 1 heroine, with the possible exception of Mrs. Eleanor Holm Jarrett, because she was not allowed to compete, was a Fulton, Mo., filly named Helen Stephens. The Olympic Games had produced eight deaths, innumerable misunderstandings, enough revenue to repay all running expenses and part of what it would otherwise have cost Germany for barracks for 4,000 soldiers, the best...
Royalty. Ruled off the U. S. swimming team for drinking last fortnight, Eleanor Holm Jarrett last week went for a sight-seeing stroll with a friend, met onetime Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor August Ernst at Netherlands Palace. Their chat in English: Prince: Is that the famous swimmer? ... I have heard so much about...
Protagonists of the scandal were Eleanor Holm Jarrett, 22, ablest and best-looking swimmer on the U. S. team; Playwright Charles MacArthur fresh from a Chicago courtroom where his first wife, Cinemacritic Carol Frink, finally withdrew an alienation of affections suit against his second wife Actress Helen Hayes (TIME, July 13); and Avery Brundage, chairman of the U. S. Olympic Committee...
First stage in the reverberations were interviews with Swimmer Jarrett, her husband, Crooner Art Jarrett, whom she married in 1933, and her mother, Mrs. Charlotte Holm of Brooklyn. Said Swimmer Jarrett, who was offered a Ziegfeld Follies job at 16, worked for nine months as a Warner Brothers cinemactress, quit when a scheduled swimming role endangered her amateur status and hence her chance to defend her Olympic title. "I've been nightclubbing . . . for the last three years. . . . The night before the final tryouts I was up all night partying with my husband. . . . I've never made any secret...
Said Mrs. Holm : "You can say what you like about the damned thing...