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...scandal broke when Chairman Brundage announced last week as the ship docked at Hamburg that Mrs. Jarrett, Olympic backstroke champion, had been dismissed from the team for drinking. Nosy sportswriters announced that her drinking companion at an "all-night party" had been Playwright MacArthur, without his wife. This MacArthur irritably denied from London, saying, "I was at a bar at the other end of the ship...
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 Crooner Jarrett in New York: "It may have been necessary for the morale of the team. . . . Eleanor isn't a 10-year-old. . . . Those fellows have a job on their hands taking care of that Olympic crowd. ... I don't know whether they were right or wrong...
Second stage was comments by Chairman Brundage, who two years ago tried to have Swimmer Jarrett declared a professional; Track Coach Dean Cromwell of Southern California; Nazi newspapers. Said Chairman Brundage. onetime University of Illinois hammer thrower who has stayed in the spotlight as president of the Amateur Athletic Union: "We had no alternative in the circumstances. None regrets the necessity for such drastic action more than I and my associates, who considered all possible grounds for leniency and found none...
Nazi newspapers, which had given Swimmer Jarrett more publicity than any other member of the U. S. team, headlined the affair, congratulated Chairman Brundage and his committee on their stand...