Word: somersault
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...onetime protégée, Vera Bruce; in a Long Branch, Calif, lawyer's office. Two years after Lillian Leitzel's death from a fall in Copenhagen in 1931, Trapezist Codona was severely injured by a fall during a performance of his famed triple somersault in Philadelphia. Despondent over his inability to perform professionally, he last week went to confer with Mrs. Codona, from whom he had been separated for a year, about a divorce settlement. When the conference ended, Trapezist Codona asked to be left alone with his wife, drew a gun, shot her four times...
...Rudd did not know it. Up the slightly slanting tree trunk he clambered some 18 ft., clung there until a ladder intended for the coon was used to retrieve him (see cut). Amazed coon-hunters, who had often seen their dogs scramble a few feet up a tree and somersault back, swore they had never seen anything like that climbing coon dog Rudd...
...giant Runt* from Dallas. For his 3? lb., he had an 18-in. body circumference, wing spread of three feet. ¶ Unhappiest breed were Parlor Tumblers. Equipped with the determination of homing pigeons but utterly unable to fly, their efforts to get off the ground cause them to somersault backward. Single Tumblers flop over once, Double Tumblers twice. Parlor Rollers will roll 75 ft. backward without stopping. ¶ Most numerous were 600 Kings-large, white birds with big, bright red feet. Handsomest were varicolored, round-breasted Modenas. Rarest were white Frill-backs, a breed recently restored to standards of show...
...where her doctor had to advise her to take up swimming when she was 11. She began high diving a year or so ago, won the women's national championship in her second try for it last week. Because her specialty is a two-and-a-half forward somersault from the 24-ft. plat- form, which no other girl in the world can do, she was handicapped in the Olympic tryouts three days later because the Olympic diving program rewards perfection of execution rather than quantity of varia- tions. Needing a third place or better to make the team...
Over Middleburg, Pa. Pennsylvania's 45-year-old Governor George Howard Earle buzzed about alone in his own autogiro to complete the 50 hours of solo flying necessary for a license. As he landed, he put on the brakes too hard, cracked up in a somersault which ruined his plane, soaked him in gasoline, bruised his hand. Pooh-poohing the injury, he hustled off to a banquet, remarked: "I am used to getting hurt. In 20 years of polo-playing I was knocked out 15 times and sometimes for long periods. I got a fractured skull, a broken back...