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There are few men in the land who can outdrive husky Babe Didrikson; she once slammed a ball 408 yards, averages an amazing 240. But the Babe contributes more to ladies' golf than just swat: she is a crowd-puller. Unlike most women golfers, who are timid before an audience, the Babe in her showmanship is as subtle as a punch on the nose. When she spotted a photographer trying to take her picture, she yelled, "I'm not so bad that you have to have your thumb over the lens, am I?" At Orlando, she quipped...
...Manhattan's sleazy Stillman's Gym, where he trained, a place full of the smell of dust, sweat and arnica, characters paid 50? to get in and crowd around. When Rocky, the biggest crowd-puller outside of Joe Louis, swigged water between rounds and aimed a spout at a funnel in the corner of the ring, they didn't mind being splashed. When Rocky elbowed his way through the mob to work on the small punching bag, the hangers-on tried to borrow five or ten, or find out "How's ya condition." Rocky liked...
Champion crowd-puller of the year, reported U.S. movie exhibitors (polled by the trade's Motion Picture Herald), was 42-year-old Bing Crosby - as he was the year before and the year before that...
...George that other big companies put him on their boards. Among them: Victor Emanuel's Aviation Corp. and Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp., Tom Girdler's Republic Steel, General Aniline and Film Corp. George knew the men who ran the country. George was a fixer and a puller of wires. That was what George got paid for. Keeping a gruelling schedule, he seldom got home to his Wardman Park apartment and his pretty, pert wife...
...Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's least known operas is Tsar Saltan. A skip-along scherzo in its second act has become one of the inevitable pieces in any violinist's repertory: Flight of the Bumblebee. Last week Rimsky-Korsakov's little earsore was a strong jukebox nickel-puller, helped by a steady left-hand beat, and a new name: Bumble Boogie...