Word: ping-pong
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...celluloid ball, light and fragile as a frozen bubble, flicked across the green table. On one side, stood Viktor Gyözö Barna, executing from just above his shoes the incredible backhand shots that have made him four times ping-pong champion of the world. On the other side, whacking them back with a persistence that amazed sophisticates in the crowd who knew that only two years ago he was one of the late Texas Guinan's tap-dancers, stood red-haired Jimmy McClure of Indianapolis...
With more than 60 entries the draw for the Lowell House ping-pong tournament has been made and some of the first round matches played. Because no definite dates have been set for the elimination of rounds, the tournament will probably last well into the winter term...
...Oklahoma City University, President Walter Scott Athearn announced that the university would soon give academic credit for ping-pong, archery, skating, fraternity and sorority membership...
...Original John Held Jr. Girl" although she had never met or posed for that artist. Playing on Broadway in Top Speed and Girl Crazy, she got a cinema contract because Hollywood liked the way she kept repeating "Cigaret me, big boy!" in Young Man of Manhattan. She plays expert ping-pong, likes to speak pig-Latin, dislikes exhibiting her feet. We're Not Dressing (Paramount). This picture may suggest tremendous new possibilities to producers. Stranded on a desert isle, an heiress (Carole Lombard) and a sailor (Bing Crosby) give credit where due by remarking that their situation resembles that...
...liquor and the ladies of the yellow filet. Admiral Rodman, who qualified as an art critic by commanding the naval forces overseas in the World War, complained that the picture originated in the imagination of one who knew nothing about sailors and their habit of spending shore leave playing ping-pong in the Y.M.C.A. The Secretary of the Navy, who may have learned the rudiments of art from recruiting posters, was notified of the libel. It is not likely that the weary farm mothers of Kansas and Idaho, upon whose sons the Navy depends for its enlisted personnel, would ever...