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Greta Garbo, shy nonpareil of the screen, boarded the Gripsholm for her first trip to Sweden since 1939. There were rumors that she planned to direct a Swedish picture (she has not played in one for Hollywood since 1941). Demure in a beige suit and hat, she gave reporters only a slow smile, a characteristically languid line: "I'm awfully tired. I had to get up very early this morning...
Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb, bringing back memories of baseball's better days, battled it out at Manhattan's Polo Grounds. The plump Sultan of Swat masterminded his Eastern team to victory over the plump Nonpareil's Westerners in Esquire's annual Ail-American Boys' Game...
...language of show business, Harry Truman was following a great act. Franklin Roosevelt had been a radio nonpareil. Could his successor hold this vast audience? Two broadcasts last week seemed to indicate that the answer was a qualified...
Ford began breaking Weissmuller's records two years ago. He edged the 100-yard world's record of 51 seconds (over the international 25-yd. course), pounded it toward the magic 50 mark (50.7, 50.6, 50.1), finally did a nonpareil 49.7 last March. Last week's 49.4 was the end of the line...
...winged back to the Follies of 1917, with W. C. Fields, Eddie Cantor, Will Rogers, Fanny Brice, Bert Williams, Walter Catlett, Peggy Hopkins (later Joyce) in the cast. Or to the Follies of 1919, with a cast hardly less impressive, and such tunes as Tulip Time, Mandy, and the nonpareil Bert Williams' You Cannot Make Your Shimmy Shake...