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Favored to sweep the swimming races at Berlin as they did at Los Angeles four years ago, the Japanese last week did nothing of the sort. When the six men's events were over, U. S. swimmers had won the 100-metre backstroke (Adolph Kiefer), 400-metre free style...
Netherlands' girl athletes have not yet outclassed the U. S. in events which require grace as well as brawn. Bright blonde Dorothy Poynton Hill last week retained her title at platform diving. Springboard diving championship went to Marjorie Gestring, 13-year-old Los Angeles schoolgirl.
Revived by Baron Pierre de Coubertin to promote international amity in 1896, the Olympic Games are separated by four-year periods of bickering, money-grubbing and journalistic squeals of indignation. Current bonfire of ill will, back talk and panhandling began when the Olympic Torch was ceremoniously extinguished at Los Angeles...
One of the commonest forms of preparation for a career as a champion athlete is a sickly childhood. Diver Jump's debility reached the stage where her doctor had to advise her to take up swimming when she was 11. She began high diving a year or so ago...
A swank London audience assembled to hear Salvador Dali, Spanish surrealist painter, lecture on art. was amazed when he stumped down the aisle to the dais in a deep-sea diving suit. Beginning his talk through a microphone inside the helmet, Painter Dali, whose eccentric canvases created a furor in...