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...Golf Champion of the U.S. She outdrives any woman opponent and most men. Two years ago she won the first 72-hole medal tournament for women, at Flossmoor, Ill. by 14 strokes. Now 20, Billie Hicks has a freckled nose, fat cheeks, hirsute forearms, chubby legs, a mop of dark hair, a broad Irish grin. She likes to read (John Galsworthy, Louis Bromfield), likes better to race about in her father's big sedan or the smaller car he gave her two years ago. A month ago someone asked her who she thought would win the championship this year...
Anita Colombo is everything that a Latin feels a woman should not be. Instead of being a voluptuous ornament to couch and fireside, mother of many, she is a spinster, an energetic, athletic, "emancipated" woman. Half-German, Jewish, she has a mop of un-waved blonde hair, a keen, sculptured face which powder & lipstick never have touched. Born in Milan some 35 years ago, she wanted first to be a tomboy. When Italy entered the World War she hurried off to the front, did Red Cross work, behaved (for a woman) preposterously: for gallant conduct she won the Bronze Medal...
...into a cage which a keeper was scrubbing. The keeper "did the one thing that would save his life. He took the lion completely by surprise. He emitted a blood-curdling yell, sprang into the air and with all his strength hurled his water-filled pail and his wet mop full in the face of the astonished beast. Hannibal was so unnerved by this attack that he tried to beat a hasty retreat over the slippery floor. His feet flew out from under him and he turned an undignified somersault back into his sleeping den. Poor Hannibal couldn...
...Georgia Coleman has a mop of blonde hair, a compactly graceful figure, an enormous vitality which Southern California would like to believe comes from the fact that she has always lived there. She used to play baseball with the Chicago Cubs when they trained at Catalina Island, was tumbling in a Los Angeles pool when a swimming coach saw that she might make a good diver...
...continue the Gothic motif, printed capitals will be in Priory type. A prologue and epilogue, written in the manner of Chaucer, have been planned by the literary board. Another feature will be a 300-line poem "The Rape of the Mop", by an anonymous contributor of the Class of 1934 which is done in Pope's style. The poem satirizes incidents in the lives of various freshmen this year in a humorous...