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...would not be surprised if, as newsreels often show her doing, she paused in mid-air and returned to the springboard. In the high platform championships last week, her execution of a running one-&-a-half forward somersault (see cut) caused judges to prefer her performance to that of plump Frances Meany, whose sister Helen was diving champion before Georgia Coleman. Georgia Coleman also retained her fancy diving championship from a ten-foot springboard at Long Beach, N. Y. Second was versatile Minnow Rawls...
...Open, were there to watch. Most closely they watched one-eyed Tommy Armour. British Open Champion, who was defending his next-best title; Walter Hagen. who recently recovered his putting touch and promised his friends to win at least one important championship this year; Percy Alliss, a plump British professional attached to a club at Wannsee, near Berlin, where Professor Albert Einstein goes sail-boating; elegantly skinny Johnny Farrell; Wiffy Cox, the only pro who played the new U. S. "big ball" (and shot a 68 with it) in the first round last week. In addition to these, there were...
...took the lead at the next hole. From there on it was a seesaw: At lunch Alliss led by a stroke. One up at the long (460 yd.) sixth in the afternoon, Hagen played his second shot into the woods, skimmed his third between two lines of spectators to plump his ball a yard from the cup, made a birdie four. After holding a lead of now one and now two strokes. Hagen dropped the fifteenth and sixteenth, where Alliss sank a 30-ft. putt, and they came to the seventeenth all even. Alliss thereupon sliced his drive to take...
...personalities were elected: Novelist Vicente Blasco Ibanez' son from Valencia, and that plump aerial cutup, Major Ramon Franco, who broke his leg last week when a campaign platform collapsed under him, from Barcelona...
...perfectly), there came people in shirt sleeves as well as gentry in starched collars and decollete. First performance was a novelty: Gioa-chino Rossini's highly difficult William Tell which Chicago had not heard since 1919. Ravinia fans were glad to hear once more Elisabeth Rethberg as Mathilde, plump soprano daughter of Tyrant Gessler, and Giovanni Martinelli as her lover Arnold, heroic tenor patriot. Soprano Rethberg's bright Saxon face will soon be tanned dark beneath her pink & white makeup, for each year she takes a house near the lake, spends long days swimming. Soon other Ravinia favorites...