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...More remarkable than the number of records was one of the swimmers who had made them, a 17-year-old Miami high-school boy named Ralph Flanagan. Of the 27 records Flanagan had made ten for distances from 300 yd. to 1,650 yd. His closest rival, famed Eleanor Holm Jarrett had made only...
...away to sea, was stopped by his father. But sea motifs have always played through his art, and fountains are his favorite and best subjects. He de signed a fountain of Tritons for McKinlock Court at the Chicago Art Institute, a jolly merman and mermaid for a Stock holm public square. He studied under Rodin, was for a time submerged by his master's style but finally broke away, developed a style of his own which experts today consider as genuinely MILLES as Michelangelo's was MICHELANGELO. He has the grave face of a Catholic priest, the soft...
...Kansas City. Dallas and Norfolk where a Mrs. Tom Hanes said she saw no reason for women to be "bundled up like eskimos." Even more enthusiastic about the story than any of its rivals, the New York American ran a four-column spread with pictures of Swimmer Eleanor Holm, Tennist Helen Jacobs and Golfer Bea Gottlieb...
...readers: the sinister witch Aase, the bibulous druggist and his crony, the hotelkeeper; the postmaster's flirtatious wife, the village swains, masons. et al. Readers to whom Scandinavian literature is synonymous with gloom will find themselves agreeably surprised into many a chuckle over the mock courtship of Druggist Holm and Fru Hagen; the rival evangelists and their war over the Holy Ghost; the hit-or-miss conversations between a visiting Englishman and the squire's sister (carried on largely, out of politeness to the guest's linguistic shortcomings, in peasant profanity). In a rousingly successful benefit concert...
...championships last summer by winning four championships, found her position challenged by a Seattle girl. Olive McKean, coached by the Washington Athletic Club's famed Ray Daughters. There was another new name last week- Mrs. Arthur Jarrett-but sports-page readers had no trouble identifying her as Eleanor Holm. Eleanor Holm used to be spoken of as a Follies girl because Florenz Ziegfeld once offered her a job she did not take. Last week she was described as returning from a career in Hollywood because, after the 1932 Olympics, she accepted a cinema contract that led to a crumb...