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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Trials & Tryouts | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

Married. Lenore Kight, 22, fastest U. S. woman swimmer; and Cleon J. Wingard, 24, Pittsburgh physical education teacher; in Wellsburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 16, 1935 | 9/16/1935 | See Source »

Engaged. Lenore Kight, 22, No. 1 U. S. free-style woman swimmer; and Cleon Wingard, 24, Johnstown, Pa. athletic instructor; in Homestead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 5, 1935 | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

...diving championship, to try for a clean sweep in four swimming events, the most any contestant is allowed to enter. The three she won were 100-yd. freestyle, 300-yd. medley, 100-yd. breaststroke, breaking records in each. The one she lost was the 220-yd. freestyle, to Lenore Kight who was defending her title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Females In Water | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

Since Helene Madison retired from amateur competition in 1932, Lenore Kight has been the ablest U. S. female practitioner of that super-development of the old-fashioned "crawl" which modern swimmers loosely describe as "free-style." Brunette, 22, she is a shade less effective than her rivals photographically, a shade faster than any of them in the water. She learned to swim at the athletic club of the Carnegie Library of Homestead, Pa., where famed Jack Scarry is the swimming coach. Last week Lenore Kight demonstrated more firmly than ever her current eminence in her specialty. She won free-style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Females In Water | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

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