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...best individual performance was turned in by Charlie Hutter, former Olympic swimmer, who equalled his own pool record of 2m., 13.8s in the 220-yard free style swim...
...adult star. Cinemactress Durbin, currently in New York on vacation, owns three pet turtles, a black dog named Tippy, collects paper matches for souvenirs. She takes singing lessons from Andres de Segurola, piano lessons from Frances Minnerick, schools with a tutor in the studio, is nicknamed "Candy," likes to swim and ride. When she goes back to Hollywood she will live in a new house overlooking the Universal lot, with a bedroom walled in glass brick...
...wilderness that make up the Park, winter was approaching, and the beaver were kept indoors. Transplanted beaver try to get back to their old homes before a freeze-up, particularly when they have stored away a winter's food supply, and in their anxiety swim long distances, get lost, "and run around in a manner directly contrary to their usual habits." Grey Owl had already wired his wife, Anahareo, who was visiting her parents in Ontario, to come help him, and the two Indians had their hands full. They could only sleep in the forenoon, when the beaver slept...
Kendall's mark bettered by 2 of a second the former pool record of 24.6 The former Australian Olympic star also fulfilled advance notices by winning the 100-yard free style swim...
Born in Seattle, Wash. in 1894, Tom Hamilton learned to fly at about the age most humans learn to swim. At 14 he had already built and flown gliders of his own, thereby earning his credentials as one of the earliest of "The Early Birds," a U. S. society composed of people who flew before Dec. 17, 1916.* But his most precocious exploit was the organization, at 15, of a company to make airplane propellers. Businessman and barnstormer at 21, Hamilton went to Vancouver, B. C. in 1915 to teach the Royal Air Force. While there he opened another propeller...