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...women's singles, Alice Marble breezed through with scarcely a challenge, stood off a grim Helen Jacobs in the final, to the enjoyment of practically everybody but leathery oldster Molla Mallory, who said Alice would never be a tennis player until she learns to put some spin on her forehand...
...next, he wrestled and elbowed. Then Nova, whom the trade calls a get-even fighter, forgot his boxing orders and set out to get even. From then on he never had a chance. Tony butted, gouged, rabbit-punched, hit high & low, dropped Lou with two lefts and an airplane spin, dropped him again and bounced on him, thumbed Lou's badly cut right eye and heeled it with his glove lacing, swung so hard with his murderous left that his pants almost fell off. Finally, late in the 14th, with quartfuls of blood on the canvas, on the referee...
...limit was determined by the period figure skaters can leap and whirl without falling on their exhausted faces. Although Henie has enriched her repertory with ice dances such as her Pavlova-inspired "Dying Swan," her standbys are those of other figure skaters: the Lutze jump; Jackson Haynes (a sit spin); Axel-Paulsen (a one-and-a-half jump ending on the other skate); camel spin (on one foot); double Salchow (a double jump from the inside edge of one skate to the inside edge of the other...
...Okay, wise guy, so I suppose you'd take a five-time spin every morning before breakfast...
...25th Harvard class reunion, Massachusetts' long-toothed Governor Leverett Saltonstall rounded up the members of his famed junior-varsity crew,* took them for a spin on the Charles River (Saltonstall rowing...