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Newscameramen in Toledo last week busily snapped pictures of smiling young ladies assuming graceful poses on a swing, a springboard, a seesaw. One view showed the swing's platform sagging under the weight of three girls. In another a seesaw was seen bending under the weight of a girl at each end. Another showed a girl poised near the tip of a bending springboard. The equipment came in for more attention than the posers because platform, seesaw and springboard were all made of glass. This flexible, resilient glass, called "tempered glass'' by its U. S. manufacturer, Libbey...
...Union Bag's assets more than one-half is President Alexander Calder, known to his subordinates as "Sandy," though greying hair reveals his 50 years. As a Union Bag salesman, not long out of St. Lawrence University, he bagged the Woolworth 5?-&-10? stores account, which was a springboard to a vice-presidency. Boardchairman and one of Union Bag's big stockholders is old Philanthropist August Heckscher...
...multiplied Plymouth's sales by five is one of the few crack motormen who did not rise from the bench. Mr. Hutchinson is primarily a financial man, having raised the money to keep old Maxwell Motor alive when Walter P. Chrysler was fashioning that company into a personal springboard...
...meter free style: Olive McKean 1-mi. free style: Lenore Kight 3-meter springboard diving: Katherine Rawls 220-yd. backstroke: Alice Bridges 440-yd. free style : Lenore Kight 880-yd. free style : Lenore Kight 220-yd. breast stroke: Ann Govednik Platform diving: Dorothy Poynton Hill 300-meter medley: Katherine Rawls
...night at my hotel various representatives of the Army and Navy, particularly Captain Joel Boone of the White House [President Coolidge's physician]. Captain Boone stood in good favor with the Press and Cabinet and leaders in political life, and for them to appear at our play (The Springboard, no success] at his suggestion would mean space in the newspapers...