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...weighs 126 lb., has slim hard wrists and ankles, long spatulate hands. No one person is greatly responsible for her proficiency in heterogeneous sports. Her manager and coach, Melvin J. McCombs, is director of athletics for Dallas Employers' Casualty Co. Her father. Ole Didrikson, is Scandinavian, a onetime sailor. Beyond a tendency to use explicit language and to despise small girls who play with dolls, Wonder Girl Didrikson's demeanor during intervals between her physical exertions is not unfeminine. She likes to cook, dance, sew. Last year she constructed for herself a box-plaited dress. It won first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wonder Girl | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

...OCTOBER-Sigurd Hoel-Coward-McCann ($2). Second-prizewinner in a recent Inter-Scandinavian Fiction Contest; much grimmer than Author Hoel's Sinners in Summertime. NAPOLEON-Hilaire Belloc-Lippincott ($4). For admirers of Belloc's indefatigable partisanries. LETTERS OF CHARLES DICKENS TO THE BARONESS BURDETT-COUTTS-Button ($2.50). Hitherto unpublished letters of an aging novelist to a lady charitarian. A LONG TIME AGO-Margaret Kennedy-Doubleday, Doran ($2). Reviewed next week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books of the Week | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

...capers about constantly, kicking up such a breeze with his furious fanning that he all but blows himself into the wings. He takes frequent encores by singing the most irreverent variations on the text, translating "The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring, Tra-La" into every dialect but the Scandinavian. He expands the patter-song "I've Got a Little List" to include the more recent nuisances. Even in Gilbert's day this song was progressively altered to include the passing parade of follies, such as the "scorching bicyclist" and the "lovely suffragist; so that for his inclusion...

Author: By G. G. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/13/1932 | See Source »

...spirit of the times and gone in for "professional objectives" rather than "cultural ones." Dr. Flexner said something like that, and Dr. A. J. Nock, in their late internationally read books. I have heard it intimated in Oxford and Cambridge (England) combination rooms, and by professors in German and Scandinavian universities. Some Harvard alumni--notably Mr. John Jay Chapman--Have cried aloud that it is true. Now the CRIMSON assumes it and defends it--speaking for the Harvard undergraduates. One can only hope, sir, that the news of Harvard's surrender, like the one-time rumour of Mark Twain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bell Lettres | 10/5/1932 | See Source »

PROLOGUE TO LOVE ? Martha Ostenso? Dodd, Mead ($2). Not her gloomy Scandinavian stuff but romance in British Columbia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books of the Week | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

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