Word: jumping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, 100 members of Oxford's Labor Club decided to reenact the epic of Edwardian chivalry-even Socialists could be sentimental about the old days. They voted Anne Whates, a dark, buxom history student at Lady Margaret Hall, the girl for whom they would most willingly jump into the river. One day last week, dressed for her part in a straw boater and a Japanese sunshade, the new Zuleika was punted downstream in a chilling rain. Of the 100 voters, only nine braved the river, but three jumped with such abandon that Zuleika beckoned for an encore. (Said...
...Heliotrope, a freshly caught frog from the Sierra Nevada foothills, outleaped some 150 rivals to win the annual Jumping Frog Jubilee of Calaveras County (Calif.). The winning jump: n ft. 5 in.-no record...
...comics was never the same after two Cleveland teen-agers turned Superman loose in it. In 15 years, he made over $400,000 for Writer Jerome Siegel and Cartoonist Joseph Shuster, and inspired a score of imitators. Superman was the first cartoon hero to make the reverse jump from comic books to newspaper syndication...
Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, both 33, already have a new crimebuster on their drawing boards. Their Funnyman is an athletic, but not quite superhuman, combination of swashbuckler and Keystone Cop. Now competing with Superman for the comic-bookworms, Funnyman will jump to the funnypapers when Siegel & Shuster find a syndicate...
...Lawrence and Torrey jump the way they did last year, they could tie for first with two or three other vaulters...