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...Water to Shanghai. Otway Hebron Chalkley, born in Richmond some 50 years ago (he is even bashful about his exact age), was the only child of a prosperous, respected leather merchant. In Richmond he is remembered now as an expert player of bandy (a form of hockey), a proficient swimmer in the local holes-which go by such picturesque names as Soda Water, Cherry, Heaven, Hell-and a sober student. From school he went to work as an office boy for American Tobacco Co. at $3 a week, began a standard up-through-the-ranks career-factory manager in Newport...
Johnny Roosevelt is the gayest, vaguest, gentlest, most winning of the Presidential sons. Anne is no great beauty but full of spirit, a good sailor, swimmer and dancer. When Johnny first presented her to his father, he said: "This is Miss Schmaltz." "Oh!" exclaimed the President, "I thought it was Zilch." The late F. Haven Clark, Anne's father, was a Boston banker. He had a place on Campobello Island, N. B. straight across the road from the Roosevelts'. But Anne became engaged to another boy, John interested in another girl. Not till last year did they take...
...Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences award in both 1936 and 1937 (The Great Ziegfeld, The Good Earth); in Hollywood. Charges: he brooded, stayed away nights, failed to visit her in the hospital, suggested, that she quit her career. Divorced. Eleanor Holm Jarrett, 24, onetime Olympic backstroke swimmer; by Arthur L. Jarrett. 30, jazz-band leader and crooner; in Los Angeles. Charges: he had been caused "great mental anguish and embarrassment" by her public announcement that she and Billy Rose, tiny producer of vast shows, would be married as soon as Jarrett and Rose's wife, Fanny Brice, secured...
...Angeles' swank Ambassador Hotel pool, Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller, Diver Marjorie Gestring, other aquatic stars put on an exhibition to raise money for blonde, beauteous Georgia Coleman, onetime (1929-31) U. S. women's diving champion, who for the last six months has been in a Los Angeles hospital ill with paralysis. Two of Miss Coleman 's bathing suits were auctioned off, one to Swimmer Weissmuller for $20. Total amount raised: "more than...
...Swimmer Bill Kendall's National Intercollegiate record of 4 minutes 46.4 seconds for the 440 yard free-style in a 20-yard pool was accepted yesterday by the National Collegiate A. A. as an official performance. Kendall splashed his way to the new standard on February 23 of this year as the Varsity defeated Springfield...