Word: acrobatic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Normandie churned slowly up New York harbor last week on her final crossing for 1935, many a passenger gawped upward into the French Liner's rigging at one Chrysis de la Grange, a shapely girl who calls herself the world's champion twist rope acrobat, was busy proving it in a bathing suit for publicity purposes. Among the gawpers was another publicity-minded person, fubsy, pink-chopped, little Harold Keates Hales, Member of Parliament who has achieved his place in the sun not by cavorting on a rope but by donating the Hales Blue Ribbon Trophy for transatlantic...
...called a "mug." This was news because Johnny almost from birth had undergone special training at Manhattan's Medical Center whereas Jimmy had been allowed to develop like any ordinary child. As a result when the twins were sent home for good, "conditioned" Johnny was a fearless little acrobat with a personality far in advance of his years and "unconditioned"' Jimmy was just a plain laughing, crying, scary youngster (TIME, July 30). Last week Dr. Myrtle Byram McGraw, assistant director of the Normal Child Development Clinic where the Woods twins were under scientific control from their 20th...
...wife kissing her lover through the bars of a window while her fat husband snoozes with his back turned; two bewildered young Basques showing their humble bundles, their passports at a frontier railroad station; a fat Madrid dandy getting a shoe shine at a café; a chunky street acrobat holding a whale of a woman high in the air with one hand...
Born in Texas 22 years ago to a crippled circus acrobat, Lynwood Rowe is 6 ft. 4 in. tall. He was the best player on all his high-school teams. Instead of going to college on a scholarship, he signed a contract to play baseball for Detroit, joined the team last season. But in the record he has compiled since then there was a flaw. He had beaten every team but Washington. The score when the last inning started last week was: Washington 2, Detroit...
Died. Joseph Harold ("Hal") Skelly, 43, comedian; when his automobile was struck by a train; near West Cornwall, Conn. At times in a difficult career he was altar boy, prizefight manager, first baseman for the Boston "Braves," circus acrobat, medicine man hawker, trouper in Japan, China. His greatest stage success was the hoofer, "Skid," in Burlesque which he also played in a cinema version called The Dance of Life. Other plays: No, No, Nanette, Fiddlers Three, The Night Boat, Fifty Million Frenchmen (in England). His last was Come What May (TIME...