Word: huddlestone
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Myrtle Huddleston is the world's champion endurance swimmer among women. Five years ago. aged 30, she took her first swimming lesson. The next year she swam 36 miles across Catalina Channel in 20 hr., 42 min. She won the ocean championship at Del Ray Beach, Fla., in 1928. when she swam for 31 hr., 18 min. Since then. Mrs. Huddleston has been immersed in various bodies of water more frequently and for longer periods than anyone else of her sex. Most protracted was her sojourn in a Coney Island swimming pool which lasted...
Died. Edward Thomas Bedford, 82, president of Corn Products Refining Co., oldtime associate of Oilmen John Davison Rockefeller, Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers and Charles Pratt; of heart dis ease; in Green Farms, Conn...
...remembered something and went back. A few plodded on to the outer line of the circle. First across, and winner of $7,100 was Goober Dust, owned by Mrs. Cora M. Day of Ponca City. Second prize, $1,250, went to an anonymous turtle belonging to F. V. Huddleston of Bluff City...
...bright water at Cape Gris Nez (grey nose), France, were, last week, the U. S. Zittenfeld twins, 15. There, too, were the English Misses Ivy Hawke, Joan Brunton. Molly Parker and Connie Gilhead-channel swimmers all. There, too, fattest, most bulbous, most famed, was Mrs. Myrtle Huddleston (240 lbs.), who last year remained afloat for 54 hours in a Bronx pool, finally being pulled out in a state of limb-swollen collapse. Worthy water-mates for her roamed also about the beach-an Egyptian, black and gigantic, named Ishak Helmy and a German whose name everyone forgot. All then, male...
Married. Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers, Manhattan oilman lately divorced (TIME, July 22); to Mrs. Basil Miles, Budapest-born widow of the late U. S. Commissioner to the International Chamber of Commerce and onetime wife of Peabody Savell, U. S. engineer; in Paris...