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...robber in the House-or maybe in the Senate." Publisher Will Rogers Jr. gave Patricia Ziegfeld, whose late father started the late cowboy humorist to fame in the Follies, a job as cub reporter on his Beverly Hills (Calif.) Citizen. Miami Beach lifeguards spied a porpoise-like swimmer going down for the second time, hauled safely ashore Massachusetts' Senator David Ignatius Walsh, 63. Chirped a radio announcer at the Democratic National Committee meeting in Washington: "I also see among other distinguished guests Mr. Jesse James of the RFC." Said RFChairman Jesse Holman Jones: "I have frequently been called that...
...With a camera crew in boats around her, Katharine Hepburn, though a strong swimmer, worked to exhaustion making these shots, was badly battered before they were finished (TIME...
...Joseph Ruddy is a huge, bald, splotchy man, the greatest water poloist in history, an Olympic swimmer, master of 26 sports, rescuer of some 150 lives, winner of a Congressional Medal for Life Saving and 1,000 assorted athletic cups, badges, plaques. He is the father of five expert swimmers and water poloists, one of whom, Joseph Jr., captained an Annapolis team in 1931. At the New York Athletic Club, where Ruddy is coach of the nation's championship water polo team (TIME, April i), members boast that no one has yet equaled Joe Ruddy's record...
Investigating Ruddy's bank account, Commissioner Blanshard discovered that while the swimmer had earned a salary of only $11.331 in 1931-34. he had banked $104.006. Examiner Ruddy had explained to Commissioner Blanshard that he had made the money at various New York race tracks and from the receipts of his "health camp." None of the people he designated as health camp patients had ever been there. The Civil Service Commission suspended Examiner Ruddy, pending determination of charges...
Married. Lenore Kight, 22, fastest U. S. woman swimmer; and Cleon J. Wingard, 24, Pittsburgh physical education teacher; in Wellsburg...