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...extraordinarily mobile. His mouth is big, his chin square, his eyes blue and easy-rolling. His hair has nervously changed from red to brown to blond at various stages of his life. Current color: carrot. His hands were once described by a critic as "the most expressive since Eleonora Duse...
...Another famed Sears athlete is Fred's hearty daughter Eleonora, former women's squash rackets champion, hiker (Providence to Boston in 9 hr. 53 min.), polo player, horse-show jumper, six times co-winner of the Women's National Doubles championship...
...cast is excellent, especially Eleonora Mendelssohn as the sad, contained Jewess, Paul von Hernreid as the prideful Nazi, and Betty Field as the war-sick bride. But Playwright Rice is so anti-Nazi that the play has a flat taste, like propaganda...
...known in swish circles) won the first national squash racquets championship for women. The following year, she held famed Professional Walter Kinsella, world's squash tennis champion from 1914-26, to a tight score in an exhibition match. This year, at 58, white-haired, lithe Eleonora Sears is still going strong. Last week, in the Atlantic Coast squash championship (at Atlantic City), first big tournament of the season, she reached the semi-finals in a field of top-flight players, most of whom were half...
...other sports Eleonora Sears has been equally staminous. Ten years ago she hiked 73 miles in 17 hours, has often walked from Boston to Providence (47 miles) "just for the exercise." Once she swam five miles off Newport. She was one of the first U. S. women to go up in a flying machine (with Claude Grahame-White in 1910), one of the first to drive an automobile, one of the first to wear breeches and ride astride. In 1909, when she was known as "the best-gowned woman in America" and her name romantically linked with that of Yachtsman...