Word: torsos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jones Beach. A towheaded girl with a little boy's face and the torso of a minnow, 15-year-old Katherine Rawls of Miami Beach, Fla., surprised everyone a year ago by winning the national breast stroke championship at 220 yd. Last week in the Olympic Swimming Trials for Women at Jones Beach State Park. L. I., she surprised everyone again. Sure that she could qualify for the team with third place or better, her coach told her to take it easy in the 200-metre swim, save her strength for the diving that came later the same afternoon...
...foot of water. Miss Lauer, 35, 5 ft. 5 in., hazel of eye, strong of fist, proceeded to massage one by one the 116 muscles in Governor Roosevelt's toes, feet, legs, thighs, counting 10 as she manipulated each. Then he sat up, swayed his heavy torso forwards and backwards. That was to keep his abdominal muscles in tone...
Christopher Theophilus ("Jim Londos"), who considers himself the world's champion wrestler and has a gold belt to prove it, last week advanced across a Manhattan ring and seized the left arm of Joe De Vito, a rubbery Italian with a pork-barrel torso and a door-knob ear. He gave the arm a vicious twist. De Vito, grunting with unreasonable surprise, retaliated by trying to pluck off one of Londos's toes. For 21 min. 42 sec. the two groveled, grunted, snorted, glowered, slapped, twisted and oozed. Once De Vito bowled over Londos with a butt...
Perhaps the most important artists represented are Benjamin Karfiol, Morris Kantor, and Reginald Marsh. Karfiol has four pictures in the exhibit: "Picnic", "Torso", "Pine Island", and "The Yellow Drape." Two large canvases, "Staircase" and "Still Life with Glass Bottle" are the works of Morris Kantor, whose more recent pictures hint toward Victorian subjects treated in the Modern Manner. In the two temper paintings "Tenth Avenue" and "Locomotive Watering," Reginald Marsh has suppressed the brilliant coloring which formerly characterized his pieces...
...Everybody knows I have a perfect torso. . . . Painters now, they're more on inspiration, but sculptors are solid. They know what they want, and a girl that can't give them the flesh is no good to them...