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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...
...though afraid it might bounce back and hit him. As for Ethel Merman, if she is a little less than kin to Du Barry, she is more than kind-makes her, in fact, the most likable royal trollop that ever pranced behind footlights. More of an 18th-Century tomboy than a glamor girl, Merman booms and torches away in her train-announcer's contralto, jouncing her personality all over the stage, giving the King the oo-la-lahr, then (in a glorious whirlwind finish) snapping back to Broadway to sing Friendship and Katie Went to Haiti...
...told Adet and Anor to write some diary. Soon they began to write and it became very good, so Father told them that maybe it can be published." A Chinese equivalent of the Abbe children's travel diaries, Our Family is more charming, thanks to the contributions of tomboy Anor. Anor's family and travel observations, her Rats and Mice at Home, and the tales her Chinese nurse told her are shrewd, imaginative, lively, at least partly support Pearl Buck's statement that "I should not be surprised one day to see an actual genius declare itself...