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...explanation: "We still have to discover a definite scientific basis for the practice of sleeping head forward on trains. . . . Hemastatics may justify head forward position, since with the head forward the fluid inertia of the blood would cause it to accumulate in the splanchnic (abdominal) pool and thus render the brain relatively anemic. This would increase drowsiness and assist in going to sleep in the noisy and vibrating berth, but would not necessarily make the sleep one whit more refreshing, in fact, possibly the exact opposite...
...professional pool-player were suddenly confronted with a table the size of a Ouija board which answered all his requirements, he would have been no more amazed than the professional musicians who flocked last week to hear a new electrical organ on view at the Industrial Arts Exposition in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center. This new organ had no pipes. It was much smaller than a small upright piano and it cost only $1,250, as compared with $4,000 & up for most pipe organs...
Spectators jammed the galleries, sat along the edge of the pool with sheets across their legs. Bobbe Arnst, onetime wife of Johnny Weissmuller, now married to a Chicago lawyer named Robert Cavenaugh but still interested in swimmers, arrived the opening night, foiled a bandit who tried to steal her sealskin coat when she was leaving. Signs were hung in the locker rooms to remind members of the Lake Shore Athletic Club what was going on: "Ladies in the Pool; Please Wear Suits." The meet - annual national A. A. U. indoor swimming championships for women-brought the Chicago Daily News Fresh...
...girl swimmers, Eleanor Holm Jarrett can be identified as the one with the best-looking bathing suit, the darkest fingernails, the broadest smile which, through all the vagaries of her career, has remained attractively inscribed upon her face as if it were a trademark. After playing about the pool and being photographed for three evenings, Eleanor Holm Jarrett last week finally jumped in to defend her 100-yd. backstroke championship. When she climbed out, she had made her title safe for another year and, as is her custom, had broken her own world's record...
...York Athletic Club's swimming pool, the ablest male swimmers in the country gathered last week to compete in the Amateur Athletic Union's annual national indoor championships. After three days, eleven titles had been decided, seven records had been broken, and, from the glass-green water through which they had been splashing, three young swimmers had emerged who, in 1936, may well be competent to dispute the complete supremacy in short-distance races which Japanese swimmers established in the Olympic Games...