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...Swimmer: . . . Now I'm here seeing all these nice paintings of your father and your mother and your ancestors, I quite forget all about the Olympics. Why, Your Royal Highness, you ought to go into the movies. You have an ideal face for pictures...
Royalty. Ruled off the U. S. swimming team for drinking last fortnight, Eleanor Holm Jarrett last week went for a sight-seeing stroll with a friend, met onetime Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor August Ernst at Netherlands Palace. Their chat in English: Prince: Is that the famous swimmer? ... I have heard so much about...
...Swimmer: Gee, I just can't grasp that I'm in a palace talking to royalty. Why Prince, you're so human-just like we other folks. I never thought you looked so young or could act so natural. I came into this room trembling all over. You made me feel at home immediately...
Nazi newspapers, which had given Swimmer Jarrett more publicity than any other member of the U. S. team, headlined the affair, congratulated Chairman Brundage and his committee on their stand...
...train from Hamburg to Berlin Swimmer Jarrett apologized to the Olympic Committee, begged for another chance. Said Chairman Brundage: "It would wreck the American Olympic team." Even a petition drafted by Mrs. Jarrett's teammates asking for her reinstatement failed to budge the Committee. Deprived of her uniform and definitely out of the Games, unhappy Mrs. Jarrett blasted away at the Committee as follows...