Word: acrobatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Charles ("Charley") Grapewin, 69, onetime circus acrobat, novelist and vaudevillian, whose cackling portrayals of cinema pas and grandpas (The Good Earth, The Grapes of Wrath) have made his amiable old fox's face familiar to millions of cinemaddicts; and Loretta McGowan Becker, 46, handsome Chicago divorcee; both for the second time; in Chicago...
...Like an acrobat's child, Tommy Hitchcock was trained for his career almost from infancy. His father, Thomas Hitchcock Sr., was captain of the U.S.'s first international polo team (1886), later became the country's No. 1 steeplechase trainer. Tommy's mother was called "the Mother of American Polo." She was Louise Eustis Hitchcock, daughter of James Biddie Eustis, Grover Cleveland's Ambassador to France. Prime mover in the horsy affairs of Aiken, S.C., she set Tommy in a saddle when he was three, started his polo training when he was five...
...noblest families, Lord Lonsdale was born at ugly, Gothic, ancestral Lowther Castle (described by myopic Wordsworth as "that majestic pile"), educated at Eton where he was flogged 32 times. He soon tired of this, joined a circus, toured Switzerland for a year and a half as an acrobat and trick rider, is said to have punched cows in Wyoming, explored Alaska, been either a bandit or vigilante in a Western stagecoach holdup. He claimed to have knocked out John L. Sullivan in a private bout in Manhattan. Ubiquitous grey-toppered leader of English sporting-life, the Earl deplored the passing...
...Acrobat to Psychoanalyst. Born on Manhattan's lower East Side, Emil Von Elling haunted gymnasiums where vaudeville acrobats trained; he became a skilled acrobat himself. At 14 he passed his college entrance examinations with honors and set out to be a doctor. But he had to quit C.C.N.Y. for work, eventually decided to make a career of coaching...
...York Stock Exchange. - After doing her best to save civilization at Geneva, pale, implacable Alice Paul, founder, chairman and planetary lobbyist of the World Women's Party for Equal Rights, landed in New York City, announced: "Men are to blame for the present war." - Straw-haired British Acrobat Jimmy Mollison, who made the first solo flight westward over the north Atlantic in 1932, landed at Halifax to help ferry U.S.-built bombers back to Britain. - Readers of one of the longest columns in the U.S. press (In the News) have been marveling for a month at William Randolph Hearst...