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Poll & Payroll. Then, fairly sniffing the stale air of speakeasies and Minsky burlesque shows, and cocking an ear for the tugboat whistles that used to herald a civic reception for a Channel swimmer or a Uruguayan pingpong champ, the News set out to bring Jimmy back. It hired teams of canvassers (at $10 a day apiece) to poll the city, promising its readers that the poll "will be conducted scientifically and impartially." Actually, no Ja vote in Hitler's Reich ever packed a more loaded question than the one the News launched its poll with: "If not Walker...
...girl she helped her mother get breakfast for 20-odd boarders, did the dishes, made the beds and went to school. But she still found time for three miles of swimming every day. Now that she is 19, Ann Curtis is convinced that the business of being a champion swimmer is a full time job in itself. Two months ago she quit her home economics course at the University of California. She felt that she had to concentrate if she wanted to win three of the women's National A.A.U. indoor championships...
...world's swiftest sprint swimmer lost in the National A.A.U. Indoor championships. In the 100-yd. freestyle, record-smashing Columbia Midshipman Alan Ford (TIME, Feb. 26) tried hard to shake off lean-jawed Specialist 2/C Wally Ris, onetime mechanical engineering student at the University of Illinois. He got no farther than a half-stroke ahead in three laps. Then they both flubbed the all-important last turn, squared away even for the final spurt. Whispered 21-year-old Wally to himself: "Beat him . . . beat him." He did-by a touch, and in New York A.C. pool-record time...
...screen she was known as the Mexican spitfire. Her five years of marriage to Swimmer-Actor Johnny Weissmuller were punctuated by endless quarrels and reconciliations, mostly in public. After her divorce she joyously telephoned the columnists the details of many careless new affairs. She was no longer a star, but her private life kept her in the public...
...pool since before going to Quebec. He had the sniffles for two or three days and since then has been in & out of town and terribly busy. But he's going to start in the pool again now. It's good for him. He is a powerful swimmer and that gives him a good workout. . . . The buoyancy of the water enables him to walk and he gets exercise there that he can't get any other...