Word: swimmers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Protagonists of the scandal were Eleanor Holm Jarrett, 22, ablest and best-looking swimmer on the U. S. team; Playwright Charles MacArthur fresh from a Chicago courtroom where his first wife, Cinemacritic Carol Frink, finally withdrew an alienation of affections suit against his second wife Actress Helen Hayes (TIME, July 13); and Avery Brundage, chairman of the U. S. Olympic Committee...
...more of a philosopher and poet than he is an athletic coach. He is an excellent dialectician, he can skillfully fence with the most subtle minds. Besides his coaching abilities he can sail a boat most excellently and talk Plato while doing so. He was a fine long-distance swimmer...
Expert billiard players, disgusted with ordinary billiards because it is so easy, have never ceased devising harder variations. Three-cushion billiards, in which the cue ball must touch three cushions before completing a carom, is the most difficult of all. As a swimmer, Lee specialized in long distance, won the U. S. championship five times. Because of his swimming prowess he was asked to join the New York Athletic Club in 1925. When he took to utilizing the club's billiard tables, it naturally occurred to him to learn the game the longest, hardest...
...Adolph Kiefer of Chicago, ablest backstroke swimmer in the U. S., won the 150-yd. dash by half the length of the pool, without hurrying broke his own world's record by 3 sec., described his performance into a microphone before getting out of the water...
...indiscriminately adept at all forms of aquatic competition. Last year she won the A. A. U. high diving championship. Last week she lost this title to 13-year-old Marjorie Gestring of Los Angeles, replaced it with the 100-yd. free-style championship, in which she just nosed out Swimmer Petty. The victory helped console her for a misfortune earlier in the week. While practicing, Claudia Eckert got a telegram which said that she had missed winning $600 by not being present at a cinemansion Bank Night...