Word: westbrook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other was to be Prime Minister, an ambition which he abandoned after the War because he was "tired of the limelight." *Last week in an interview with Sportswriter Westbrook Pegler, Postmaster General Farley announced a new liberal interpretation of the ruling which bars from the mails news of lottery and sweepstake winnings. Said he: ''The only publicity I would object to would be outright advertisement of the lotteries. The law says we can't have that. The papers can go ahead, though, and print all the news there is about the poor chambermaid or the unemployed coal...
...Westbrook Pegler commented: "The prize fight laws recognize punching on the head as quite legal, barring only the rabbit punch [chopping the back of the neck] which is often permitted, nevertheless, so if there must be prize fighting, there must be fatalities and also a regular crop of mental defectives...
...clock: George Upton defeated G. S. Squibb, P.A. Davis defeated F. A. Westbrook, G. G. Fox defeated R. w. Paul, F. E. Strobhar defeated N. D. Warwick, Millard Humstone defeated N. P. Letarte, F. P. Fish defeated M. S. Leonard, P. C. Staples defeated F. E. Sweetser...
Painter Robinson was born in Westbrook, Me., home town of Hubert Prior "Rudy" Vallée, whom she has never met. Student at the Boston Museum at the age of 17, she was one of few girls to complete the late Instructor Philip Leslie Hale's notoriously stiff anatomy course. In New York, generally working with Dr. Roland Grausman, she has specialized in sketches of diseased bronchial tracts. But Miss Robinson has her softer side...
...Olympic Games two weeks later she won two first prizes (javelin throw, 80-meter hurdles), a second in the high-jump when her best jump was disqualified for ''diving." She complained bitterly because she was not allowed to enter more events. Sportswriters Grantland Rice, Paul Gallico, Westbrook Pegler et al. were sufficiently amazed by Babe Didrikson to investigate her abilities further. She played her nth round of golf for their benefit, amazed them afresh by averaging more than 200 yd. with her drives, scoring under 90. When it was established that Babe Didrikson is also an expert swimmer...