Word: riggins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...water spectacle, which he named BILLY ROSE'S AQUACADE, the velvet-eyed little showman hired a handful of aquatic stars including Johnny ("Tarzan") Weissmuller, Eleanor Holm Jarrett, who is at home with either water or champagne. Divers Aileen Riggin and Dick Degener and Stubby Kreuger, the diving clown. A floating stage 160 ft. wide, equipped with diving towers, was built in a shipyard and towed into place on the lake front by six tugs. While the Aquacade was going on, the stage was to be 60 ft. offshore from the block-long casino whence 4,000 spectators could watch...
...instructor at a pool near Manhattan; Martha Norelius, who won the Wrigley Marathon in 1929, the Olympic Championship in 1924 and 1928, is now married to Joseph Wright Jr., 1928 Diamond Sculls winner; Helen Wainwright who is giving diving exhibitions on the Berengaria's four-day tours; Aileen Riggin who toured Europe last winter and recently lost a job with Dobbs & Co., bankrupt haberdashers...