Word: swimmer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Associated Press poll of 50 leading sportswriters revealed Tennist Donald Budge as No. 1 U. S. male athlete of 1937; Swimmer Katherine Rawls, No. 1 female athlete of 1937; the New York Yankees, No. 1 athletic team...
...different affair, however, was the expulsion from Yugoslavia's capital last week of Hubert D. Harrison, chief Balkan correspondent for Reuters, British news agency, and part-time reporter for the New York Times. As Mr. Harrison's train pulled out of Belgrade, he got a Channel-swimmer's ovation from a noisy crowd of fellow journalists, students and well-known politicians. Mr. Harrison's exile was in itself unique. It had to do with Mickey Mouse...
...stupidity of colonial government and everything about it. There is an express- ive and all inclusive word which fits the characters presented by Messrs. Raymond Massey and John Carradine to a T. Mr. Massey feels it incumbent upon him to dog the innocent tracks of Jon Hall, native swimmer, sailor, lover, and physical specimen extraordinary, Mr. Carradine taking a sadistic pleasure in trying to break the will of the same. And all the while Mr. Hall is suffering from the folly he does not understand, a lovely wife, Dorothy Lamour, is waiting on the island paradise of Manukura...
...publicize Los Angeles, its Junior Chamber of Commerce this spring decided on a "national aquatic show." To publicize the aquatic show, Los Angeles Photographer Eyere Powell last week made striking photographs of Swimmer Katherine Rawls diving through the bull's-eye of a large canvas target and U. S. High-diving champion Ruth Jump flying through the air holding a bow & arrow in a "Diana Dive...
...popped up in the Arabella's wake. At first he was not at all alarmed, simply embarrassed. He shouted, but nobody heard him. But he knew that on such a small ship his absence would soon be noted; the water was pleasantly lukewarm; he was a strong swimmer and could float indefinitely; he knew there were no sharks in those latitudes. "Just the same, it was a lonely feeling to see the Arabella getting smaller-first the size of a rowboat, then the size of a barrel, then nothing but a smudge of smoke...