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...spring all right. Ethel Barrymore, 67, picked the St. Louis Cards and the Boston Red Sox to win pennants again. Actress Jinx Falkenburg was crowned 1947 Radio Sweater Girl by the National Knitted Outerwear Foundation, which picked Nina Foch as Hollywood Queen. The New York Yankees crowned Operatic Soprano Helen Traubel Miss Symphonic Matinee of 1947 and gave her an autographed baseball. Veteran Muralist Dean Cornwell reported after a coast-to-coast tour that in good looks "suburban girls lead city girls," and have "better developed breasts, more streamlined figures ... a lasting, healthy bloom to their skin. . . ." Sweden...
...Wood nor wooden floors could beat California's Jack Kramer. The champion hugged the baseline, matched Wood's finesse with power and control, won in three hard-fought sets, 6-3, 6-4. 6-4. In the finals, two days later, he faced Bobby Falkenburg (brother of Jinx), whose tremendous first serve and smashing net game had been too much for Davis Cupper Billy Talbert. Kramer's return of service made the big serve look less sizeable. As effortlessly as if he were playing table tennis, Kramer kept ramming Falkenburg's cannonball right back...
Engaged. Robert Falkenburg, 21, rangy, seventh-ranking U.S. tennist, brother of Jinx; and Lourdes Marink-Veiga Machado, 19, bright-eyed Brazilian beauty; in Manhattan...
...visit was a whirlwind. He spoke forcefully at Town Hall on "Whose Country Is This, Anyway?" He went to a party at the Wendell Willkie Memorial Building. He was interviewed by Tex McCrary & wife Jinx Falkenburg for their chatty-patty breakfast radio program. And for the climax he appeared on Information Please, where Willkie first budded into radio popularity. Mr. Arnall did not bud, he bloomed...
...started back in 1936, when he entered the National Intercollegiate championships in the first of three attempts at the crown. He was nosed out by Fred Haas of L.S.U., and met'a similar fate at the hands of two more Louisiana players in succeeding years. Barclay side-stepped this jinx long enough to defeat the famous Willie Turnesa in the 1937 event...