Word: sydney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Australian coaches have a good eye for talent, and an almost inexhaustible supply of it. Around Sydney in particular, half a dozen expert teachers have been remarkably successful in talking proud parents into paying for additional private lessons for their children. Once they take a professional interest in a prospective star, the coaches push the child into competition as soon as possible. Young Murray Rose, who won three Olympic gold medals and holds two free-style world records (400 meters and 440 yds.), is, at 18, a seven-year veteran of tough meets all over Australia. Lorraine Crapp, 19, winner...
...good coaches anywhere, they depend most on grinding work. In the year preceding the Melbourne Olympics, Australian team members trained hard for ten months, swam six days a week, covered an estimated 80 miles apiece each month. Many of them took a ten weeks' calisthenics course in a Sydney gym, tossed medicine balls, chinned the horizontal bar, did pushups. Buoyant (5 ft. 6 in., 152 Ibs.) "Lainy" Crapp worked up to 80 push-ups and, boasted her proud coach, Frank Guthrie, became "almost as strong as a,man." Before the Olympics began, Guthrie figured Lamy was certainly strong enough...
...religions and patent medicines, and a man who fostered domestic harmony by encouraging intellectual debate. In the raucous, blasphemous, antitraditional political life of New Zealand and Australia, Low found his style, starting at eleven as a cartoonist for dim but gallant little periodicals, then graduating to the rambunctious Sydney Bulletin...
Clearance Sale. In Sydney, Australia. Mrs. Ingeborg Luise Wenskowski, 35, got her divorce on testimony that her husband offered her to a friend for $495, on a time payment plan...
Scrambled? In Sydney, Australia, Mrs. Gwendolyne Kelly got a divorce after she told the judge that she returned home early from a vacation, found her husband in bed with a woman who mistook her for the maid, ordered bacon and eggs...