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...RUSSIAN SOMERSAULT - Igor Schwezoff -Harper ($3.50). The head of a ballet school in Amsterdam tells of his life in Russia during the Revolution and after. Son of an English-Russian mother and a German-Russian father, Dancer Schwezoff had to perfect his plies between visits from the police. Written with little art, Russian Somersault won the $5,000 Hoder & Stoughton autobiography prize in England...
Dick Bowler, former captain of the Dartmouth skiing team and the man with whom John Carlton did the only double somersault ever performed, will be in charge of the skiing department at Brines...
...Bowler smiled, "So we decided to really show them something. We did the only double somersault that has ever been done. Nevertheless, I still wish I had prepared a little better for those exams. " Mr. Bowler did not divulge the marks he received...
...company which could not cut its interstate lines was Associated Gas & Electric. Instead last week it simply cut off its tall talk. In a spectacular policy somersault, A. G. & E., which spent nearly $1,000,000 lobbying against the utility bill, denied that it was ready to challenge the law in the courts. "On the contrary," purred A. G. & E., "the Associated yesterday sent out a letter to all executives and department heads of the system stating that the enactment of the legislation and its signature by the President placed it in an entirely different status than formerly, when...
...Broadway show and falls in love with a fickle society heiress while his faithful wife and partner goes back to "burleycue." Before Comedian Brown is brought to see the error of his ways he is given opportunity not only to sing and dance but turn a back somersault, take innumerable falls, chase madly hither & yon, utter his famed maniacal yell on numerous occasions and tell in baby talk an interminable story about a " 'little bitsy mousie." To show his dramatic ability, he also folds his great mouth into an expression of infinite sorrow...