Word: tomboys
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...coach, Al Nichelini (a former St. Mary's All-America) . . . moaned "I'll never live it down that a woman beat me. The sooner the Army calls me, the better." . . . Pauline is a graduate of the University of California ('36), majoring in physical education, and no tomboy either...
Farm-raised Pauline, who majored in physical education at Penn State ('42) and was badminton champion of the college, is no tomboy. Softspoken, modest, Pauline was prompted to step into her mannish role because she likes kids and knew what a letdown a football-less fall would be for them. Salina's grownups were pleased enough at being put on the map, but were somewhat skeptical of Pauline's prospects...
They sing in harmony which is not merely close but adhesive. Tall, dark La-Verne, 25, is a sort of baritone, and the one who worries about getting places on time. Tomboy Maxene, 23, a soprano of sorts, handles the Andrews checkbook. Blonde, merry Patty, 22, likes to clown, says: "I'm happy because I got no brains. Say, I don't know from nothing...
...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...