Word: madison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Lewis did him more harm than good by making managers of other fighters wary of him, limiting his adversaries to third-and fourth-raters. Several minor victories in a row brought Braddock's name up for discussion this winter in the heavyweight elimination tournament currently being conducted by Madison Square Garden Corp. He received the unexpected honor of being judged worthy of testing the qualifications of a promising young Jewish heavyweight named Art Lasky, whose handlers have been grooming him carefully for a bout with Champion Max Baer...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Albert J. Guerard 1G, of San Francisco, California, will receive the Harvard Club of an Francisco Scholarship; Madison S. Booler 1G, of Rochester, N. Y., the Townsend Scholarship; James O. Ferrell 2G, of Decatur, Alaska, a University Scholarship; and Stanley B. Jackson 2G, of Madison, New Hampshire, the Wales Scholarship...
...Vince Barnett are the gorillas detailed by their boss to see that life flows smoothly for the Princess, a task made difficult because she resents any benefactions sponsored by Toledo. Faced with the problem of getting her a new hack horse, they hire a professional horse thief from a Madison Square Garden rodeo. He is a desk cowboy with wild eyeballs who in the picture's most hilarious sequence steals the year's outstanding race horse, Gallant Godfrey. Things go on like this until the climax at the race track. Gallant Godfrey, returned to his owner, runs against...
Died. Richard Farnsworth Hoyt, 46, banker, sportsman, board chairman of Curtiss-Wright Corp., onetime board chairman of Madison Square Garden Corp.; following an operation for a liver ailment; in Manhattan. A partner in Hayden, Stone & Co., in 1929 he helped merge twelve aviation companies in Curtiss-WTright Corp...