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Married. George Frederick Schrafft, 22, candy heir, speedboat racer; and Susan Stone Stephenson, sister-in-law of Victor Mature; in Manhattan...
After taking a Moral Science Tripos at Cambridge University, Wing Commander Straight turned professional automobile racer, won many contests at England's famed Brooklands speedway, became a director of 21 British aviation companies, married sightly Lady Daphne Finch-Hatton, daughter of the 14th Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham, and in 1936 became a British subject...
...were his antecedents. Manhattan-reared (though allegedly born in Edinburgh, Scotland), he sold newspapers, ran a sporting-goods store, became a go-as-you-please foot racer, a timekeeper at track and field meets, a bottleholder at prize fights, ran a gymnasium in Brooklyn and a saloon called "The Sparrow Nest" on Park Row, was once made "athletic editor of the New York Sun." A Y.M.C.A. athletic director in France during A.E.F. days, he was hired by James Gordon Bennett as sportswriter on the Paris Herald...
...night-club saxophonist named Wally Collins, and in her fever for what was left of living, abjectly destroyed everything she had, her class, her selfesteem, even her self-deceit. Her Golgotha was a hideous gin-party in Maida Vale with Wally, a model, a radio pianist, an auto racer, a girl who stood on her head and drank two pints of beer...
Bill Thurston and Roger Wilson have yet to develop into certain point winners, though they are strong contenders for first-team posts. "Wild Bill" is a good, though rather inconsistent, downhill and slalom racer. Wilson is best in the slalom, but can run a fairly sharp cross country race too. Jack Crawford shows latent cross country possibilities, and since he spends a good deal of time practicing, he may place high in coming meets...