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...Eleanor Holm Jarrett, perennial backstroke champion, who was appearing in a Dallas doorshow last week, were her protégées the Kompa sisters, Erna and Elizabeth. Quite as pretty, almost as fast, they finished first and second in the 220-yd. race. Katherine Rawls won the 300-metre medley for the fourth year in a row, just after being severely frightened by a bolt of lightning which struck a nearby telegraph pole. RealtorJoseph P. Day, dressed in a bathing suit, handed out prizes. It was the Amateur Athletic Union National championship swimming meet for women. When...
...clock, does the marketing, eats but once a day, at the great noon banquet. He has taught and housed many an impoverished art student, helped found Manhattan's charitable Leonardo da Vinci School of Art where he still teaches. He now has but one protégée, a vivid little 23-year-old named Vivian Lush who helped him work on the Rockefeller Center panel. For her he predicts a great future...
...Wykoff in 1930, has never been broken but it has been tied so frequently that until this spring it appeared closer than any other to a final definition of the speed of a human runner. The expectation of Ohio State's Coach Laurence Snyder that his most famed protégé will break it by 3-sec. is based on the fact that, with a running start, Owens has covered the distance in 8.4. Traveling at full speed, he averages 35.71 ft. per sec. His current performances are impaired by slow acceleration which he hopes to correct within...
...addition to an eminently shrewd performance by Bette Davis, the picture contains pleasant ones by Ian Hunter and Alison Skipworth, as a onetime Floradora girl, who makes Miriam her prot...
...York's history have been the dozens of prima donnas who made news with every utterance, set fashions in food and dress, left vivid memories with every song they sang. Old men still live who remember pious Jenny Lind when she trilled in gaslit Castle Garden, a protégée of that amazing Yankee, Phineas T. Barnum. Adelina Patti was singing at the old Academy of Music on 14th Street when broughams first brought Vanderbilts and Astors to the shiny new doors of the Metropolitan Opera House...