Word: swimmer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Johnny Weissmuller, 34, longtime cinema Tarzan, No. 1 swimmer of the New York World's Fair Aquacade; and Beryl Laura Scott, 23, daughter of the owner of San Francisco's Turko-Persian Rug Cleaning Co.; he for the third time, she for the first; in Garfield...
When the 1936 Olympics came round, Swimmer Holm was doing pretty well as a night-club singer, with her husband's and other bands. She started her celebrated trip on the S. S. Manhattan on the wrong foot with the U. S. Olympic Committee by trying, unsuccessfully, to pay her own way first class. She spent her time in first class anyway, with newspapermen, taking literally the Committee's instructions to keep the kind of training to which she was accustomed. So the Committee's sober Chairman Avery Brundage threatened to kick her off the team...
After this unexpected turning point in her life, Swimmer Holm turned professional, did a Tarzan movie with Olympic Decathlon Champion Glenn Morris (which proved that she might have listened more attentively to Mrs. Dillon), made more money than she had ever seen before. She met Billy Rose at the 1937 Cleveland Aquacade, where her curvesome capers pleased him as well as the customers...
...second half From Vienna did much better. There was fun in a sketch of a refugee learning English in Six Easy Lessons; fun and charm alike in Little Ballerina, where dainty Ilia Roden plays a daydreaming ballet pupil who quits her routine to imitate Mary Wigman, Pavlova, an Aquacade swimmer. And the finale was a potpourri of those gay, nostalgic Viennese tunes to which all the world has waltzed and to which it is impossible to goose-step...
Written in collaboration with swimmer Guy Larcom, Jr., the volume contains numerous illustrations of natatorial technique a la Ulen. Speed aces Charlie Hutter and Willie Kendall spent many minutes last year posing for pictures to show how real swimmers use their arms and legs. There is also a chapter devoted to women swimmers, profusely illustrated, of course...