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...Collett Vare lost to the defending champion, Enid Wilson, while Virginia Van Wie was getting beaten by Susie Tolhurst, champion of Australia, in an amazing match that ended on the 210-yd. 19th hole. Miss Van Wie took 8 to her opponent's 6. That left only Mrs. Leona Pressler Cheney of Los Angeles, who started to play golf seven years ago when she married her first husband, a Los Angeles professional...
...word went out that two of the three remaining Americans were soggily losing, that only Mrs. Leona Cheney, small & blonde from Los Angeles, was winning her match. This news did not rattle Chicago's Virginia Van Wie, 22, who first took up golf to cure a weak back. She has an impeccable style but her specialty of pitching dead to the flag had not been working on Wentworth's sloping greens. She braced herself, squared her match on the 15th, won the next two holes. Mrs. Opal S. Hill, 40, of Kansas City was also a game...
...died here in the last year from illegal operations. Oklahoma City is the centre of a thriving, criminal operation industry." He said a "ring of at least a dozen doctors" had been performing abortions, that four known private nursing homes were operated to care for the patients. A Mrs. Leona Smith told Prosecutor Morris she had done an average of five abortions a month during the past three years. She used a formula which cost her $500. "I charged $75 a case and all recovered...
...major sport in Chicago. Of recent years it has been played by scattered groups each dominated by the man who owned the field-domineering Col. Robert Rutherford (Chicago Tribune] McCormick at Catigny Farm, ambitious Paul Butler (paper) at Oak Brook (he has eight fields), successful John Hertz (taxicabs) at Leona Farms, and A. C. Barger at North Shore...
...Philadelphia police filmed and recorded confessions of several others besides Robber Roller. Most notable was that of William E. Peters, who before camera and microphone told how he murdered Leona Fischbeck. At his trial his cinema confession will also be used against...