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...Statue of Liberty, got lost in the subway, occasionally trotted around their hotel block for exercise and spent the rest of their time singing. The letters on their badges stood for Singing Boys of America. They regarded this week's Manhattan concert as their formal debut, the springboard from which they hoped to jump to national importance, really earn their name...
Among the properties of the New York Times is the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times, publishing springboard of the late Adolph Ochs, now published by Ochs' Nephew Julius Ochs Adler. Last week Nephew Adler plucked Julian Harris, 61, from the Constitution, made him executive editor of the Chattanooga Times, a lively paper in a lively newspaper country. In subordinate jobs Harris' bitter temper and sarcasm have often hurt him but on the Chattanooga Times Harris was told that he would be Boss...
...bucktoothed, towheaded 11-year-old named Mary Hoerger won the springboard diving championship. Powerful Lenore Right of Homestead, Pa., fastest woman swimmer in the U. S.. broke two world records (mile and 880-yd. freestyle). Georgia Coleman, Olympic springboard diving champion in 1932, was on the sidelines, judging, as was the girl who swam across the English Channel in 1926, Gertrude Ederle. To take the place...
...several spectacular new members, a new list of champions: 100-metre free style .............Olive McKean 440-yd. free style .............Lenore Right 880-yd. free style ..............Lenore Right Mile free style ...............Lenore Right 220-yd. back stroke...........Elizabeth Rompa 220-yd. breast stroke..............Ratherine Rawls 300-metre medley .................Katherine Rawls Springboard dive................ Mary Hoerger Platform dive Dorothy Poynton Hill 300-metre medley relay ..............Women's Swimming Association 880-yd. relay. . .Washington Athletic Club
...Hoergers, Ruth (12), Mary ( 11 ), and Helen (5), Mary distinguished herself most last week. In the springboard dive, she amazed her judges with a 2½ forward somersault which Olympic Platform Champion Dorothy Poynton Hill had said the day before no woman could ever hope to execute perfectly. When the judges, adding up points for her nine other efforts, declared 74-lb. Mary Hoerger the national champion, she bugged her eyes, wagged a hand at a judge, shrilled: "Hold me. My knees are weak." In the platform dive, Ruth Hoerger finished second to blonde Dorothy Poynton Hill...