Word: tomboys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fans began to call her "another Patty Berg." Like Patty, Betty is a tomboy, was an outstanding softball player on the West Coast before taking up golf four years ago. On the side, she plays the bass viol, draws cartoons, writes sport features for her hometown newspaper, the Long Beach Press-Telegram...
...prodigality, Director Ruggles avoided the temptation to let his camera linger longingly on this impressive and costly background. He hewed to the narrative of pretty Phoebe Titus (Tomboy Jean Arthur), the only white woman in Tucson, who earns herself a pretty penny selling pies for $1 apiece, then goes into the freighting business. The gentleman with whom she later contracts Arizona's first all-white marriage is genial, peripatetic Peter Muncie (William Holden), a slim and smiling young pioneer who rides into Tucson with other settlers and passes some fond words with Phoebe before setting out for California...
More than that, Miss Tennant invited good-natured, green-eyed Tomboy Alice to share her Los Angeles home, became her teacher, manager, mother, mouthpiece. Under her guidance, Alice Marble developed into the hardest-hitting woman player in the U. S. Just as Brother Dan had suggested, she went "round the world in style." She was presented to England's Queen Mary after winning the Wimbledon championship last year; she became a nationally famed designer of women's tennis togs, a football commentator, women's-club lecturer, a nightclub singer...
Last week this select sorority initiated a new member, freckled-faced, redheaded Patty Berg, tomboy darling of U. S. golf galleries. Still at college (Minnesota junior), still naive enough to shake hands with all comers, to blush when interviewed and squeak "Gee Whillikers" when excited, 22-year-old Patty decided last week that she had had her fill of big silver cups, joined the Wilson boosters-at a salary of $5,000 a year, plus commission on "Patty Berg" clubs...
...page "scrapbook-diary-letter-what's it-autobiography," containing 22 reprinted short stories and sketches dating from 1924. The stories might well have been left out. The autobiography makes lively reading, a free-&-easy, self-quizzical account of Author Brush's rise from a boarding-school tomboy and diarist to Boston movie critic, to East Liverpool, Ohio housewife, to sports reporter, to best-sellerette. It is a welcome change from the usual preening of popular authors on How-I-Learned-to-Write. Katharine Brush really contributes something new (as well as humorous) in her account...