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...amateur for the last two years. The first game went to Kramer, 15-10. In the second Sim Ong got a lead of 4-1, then apparently forgot all he knew about the game while his opponent ran out 14 points in a row for match & title. Prettiest girl player in the tournament, slim, brunette Mrs. Del Barkhuff of Seattle, was also the most proficient. Using a skyrocket serve that sometimes nearly hit the roof, she won the women's singles championship, 11-4, ni, against Mrs. Ray Bergman, then paired with Hamilton Law and with Zoe Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Badminton's Rebirth | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...naturally a Dublin shindig. Last week, as usual, the hall in the Lord Mayor's man sion was appropriately decorated, this time to represent "That Drawn-the-Favorite Feeling," with a stage set representing a Castle of Dreams. When the tickets had been drawn, by Ireland's prettiest young nurses, it was found that, also as usual, a minute proportion of the winners lived in Ireland. Exactly one more than half of all the holders of prizewinning tickets lived in the U. S. Of U. S. ticket holders, half lived in and around New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grand National, Mar. 29, 1937 | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...Down to her new office in Trenton bright & early went the only woman bank president in New Jersey and probably the prettiest bank president in the land. Her election to that job in Trenton Trust Co. was no gushing matter to green-eyed, graceful Mary Gindhart Roebling. Briskly she got the jump on local newshawks by asking them if they were depositors in Trenton Trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Personnel: Feb. 15, 1937 | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

South Saint Paul has the prettiest queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hook 'Em Cow | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

Hazel-eyed, dark-haired, 6 ft. 3 in., and 40, Winner Hill is a broker (Manhattan's Calvin Bullock), married to onetime Elinor Dorrance (Campbell Soup). Winner of the hard-fought prettiest-girl title was blonde Adelaide Whitehouse, debutante daughter of Mr. & Mrs. William Fitz Hugh Whitehouse of Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 17, 1936 | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

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