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Miserable or not, the tryouts at least set a record for swimming meets by producing no swimming records of any kind. Qualified for the Olympic team were 18 familiar sports-page figures, including Crooner Eleanor Holm Jarrett (back stroke); Katherine Rawls (freestyle sprint, springboard dive), Lenore Kight Wingard (400-metre free style...
...Pretty Eleanor Holm Jarrett succeeded in being photographed in innumerable poses...
...Three Men on a Horse" which first saw the light of day some eight months ago has become quite a thing. A sort of international institution is this comedy by John Holm and George Abbott what with companies romping through it from London to Australia. Boston is the latest of the theatrical nooks and crannies to be discovered by producer Alex Yokel and since the Monday opening at the Plymouth great sounds of merriment have been rolling out into Park Square...
...Eleanor Holm Jarrett, perennial backstroke champion, who was appearing in a Dallas doorshow last week, were her protégées the Kompa sisters, Erna and Elizabeth. Quite as pretty, almost as fast, they finished first and second in the 220-yd. race. Katherine Rawls won the 300-metre medley for the fourth year in a row, just after being severely frightened by a bolt of lightning which struck a nearby telegraph pole. RealtorJoseph P. Day, dressed in a bathing suit, handed out prizes. It was the Amateur Athletic Union National championship swimming meet for women. When...
...Eleanor Holm Jarrett is the handsomest girl athlete in the world. At 19, she was Olympic backstroke champion. Last week she took a holiday from the night club where she was appearing in the floor show with her husband, Crooner Arthur Jarrett. In group photographs of girl swimmers, Eleanor Holm Jarrett can be identified as the one with the best-looking bathing suit, the darkest fingernails, the broadest smile which, through all the vagaries of her career, has remained attractively inscribed upon her face as if it were a trademark. After playing about the pool and being photographed for three...