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When Mrs. Helen Wills Moody fell ill last week of what her doctors called "sub-acute unstable fifth lumbar vertebrae symptoms" and what Sports Colyumist Westbrook Pegler called "a crick in her back," it looked alarming for the U. S. Wightman Cup team. The ablest substitute in sight was slim, brown Sarah Palfrey, a girl who has played the most graceful tennis in the U. S. for the last four years but who has always, out of some childish nervousness, failed to do her best in important matches. Last fortnight Sarah Palfrey beat U. S. Champion Helen Jacobs...
...comic strips about Gump, Winkle, Tracy et al., plus the sports comment of Westbrook Pegler and medical advice by Dr. William A. Evans, have long been features of the Post. All are syndicated by the Chicago Tribune* which is published by Editrix Patterson's famed brother & cousin (Patterson & McCormick). When the Post went into receiver ship its contracts were considered void, and features were bought on a week-to-week basis. At that point alert Mrs. Patterson stepped in, got the Tribune Syndicate to make an exclusive contract with the Herald for the comics & features, beginning this week. While...
...other was to be Prime Minister, an ambition which he abandoned after the War because he was "tired of the limelight." *Last week in an interview with Sportswriter Westbrook Pegler, Postmaster General Farley announced a new liberal interpretation of the ruling which bars from the mails news of lottery and sweepstake winnings. Said he: ''The only publicity I would object to would be outright advertisement of the lotteries. The law says we can't have that. The papers can go ahead, though, and print all the news there is about the poor chambermaid or the unemployed coal...
Westbrook Pegler commented: "The prize fight laws recognize punching on the head as quite legal, barring only the rabbit punch [chopping the back of the neck] which is often permitted, nevertheless, so if there must be prize fighting, there must be fatalities and also a regular crop of mental defectives...
...Olympic Games two weeks later she won two first prizes (javelin throw, 80-meter hurdles), a second in the high-jump when her best jump was disqualified for ''diving." She complained bitterly because she was not allowed to enter more events. Sportswriters Grantland Rice, Paul Gallico, Westbrook Pegler et al. were sufficiently amazed by Babe Didrikson to investigate her abilities further. She played her nth round of golf for their benefit, amazed them afresh by averaging more than 200 yd. with her drives, scoring under 90. When it was established that Babe Didrikson is also an expert swimmer...