Word: vinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the most faithful practitioners was comely, long-legged, 24-year-old Maribel Yerxa Vinson. Fastened to double-runners when a tot of 3, she soon mastered the school figures, won her first national women's championship at 16. Since then, she has won the U. S. title every year except 1934, when she journeyed abroad, finished third in the European championship. At Radcliffe, in addition to skating, she participated in collegiate theatricals, became a topnotch ballroom dancer, sculled vigorously on the Charles, played a fast game of tennis, rode horseback. Vivacious, chic, unmarried, she has more recently...
...difficulties involved in engineering such a marvel. The workers are hampered by a submarine volcano, the machinations of an armament tycoon and domestic difficulties that beset the chief engineer (Richard Dix). His wife (Madge Evans) thinks he is in love with a U. S. millionaire's daughter (Helen Vinson) and deserts him, a mishap for which the engineer blames his best friend (Leslie Banks...
...gesture of pain. After the match, doctors said he had a displaced kidney. Perry refused to comment on his injury, said, "I've had a licking coming to me for a long time," consoled himself a day later by motoring to Harrison, N. Y., and marrying Cinemactress Helen Vinson...
Married. Frederick John Perry, 26, British tennist; and Helen Vinson, 27, cinemactress, daughter of a Texas oil executive; day after Tennist Perry lost to Wilmer Allison in the semi-finals of the U. S. Singles Championship at Forest Hills; by a Justice of the Peace, in Harrison...
...least one film actress, Binnie Barnes, is credited with a larger shoe than Greta Garbo's ? 7½AA. A cursory survey of other foot sizes produces the following: Claire Dodd 7AAA, Helen Vinson 7AA, Joan Blondell 6C, Marion Davies 6B, Carole Lombard 5½A, Norma Shearer 5½A, Jean Harlow...