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...light cords, tools, lipsticks, cigaret lighters, mousetraps, nails, pencils, or briar pipes-many of which had not been in evidence before they arrived. One Womack tripped on a bead. For the most part the Womack women did the falling, the Womack men acting as witnesses. Using such names as Opal Irkman or Bertha Curd, the Womacks had figured in at least 65 accidents which brought them $2,085. Most Womack claims were settled on the spot. Several netted nothing when adjusters remembered previous encounters. One who called on Mrs. Womack grew suspicious when she began to describe the wrong accident...
Most women golfers good enough to try for the U. S. championship are persistent matrons like Mrs. Opal Hill of Kansas City, who was playing in her 13th national tournament last week, or enthusiastic youngsters like Patty Berg. Mrs. Page, 29, is neither. Wife of an accountant in Greensboro. N. C. she first took up golf for her health, has played only six years...
...Opal S. Hill, 45, of Kansas City: the tournament for the Missouri women's golf championship, for the third year in a row; during which she scored a 66 (a hole-in-one, two eagles, six birdies, nine pars), lowest score for 18 holes ever recorded by a woman; on the Indian Hills course, Kansas City...
...winner. This was Country Home magazine's award for the best country newspaper correspondent of the year. The winner, who gets $200 and a trip to New York and Washington, was Finlay ("Fin") Petrie, 53, reporter for the Kemmerer, Wyo. Gazette in the woolgathering town of Opal (pop. 50). The envy of his profession, Petrie never got through grammar school. He came to the U. S. from Scotland as an itinerant house painter, turned up in Opal where the general store gave him the job of clerk. It seemed natural that Fin should tell people what was going...
Right is Kentian Dalberg. The three lettuce pitchers were June Merrifield, Margie Wilcox and Margie Daniels, high-school girls, who did the dirty work for Lettuce Queen Opal Sorenson...