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...Reidsville, N. C., the latest sport is rolling-pin throwing contests. Target is a dummy with a bull's-eye drawn on it. Unofficial champion is Mrs. Frank Christian...
...childish, nothing so angers archers as the charge that their sport is effete, and the newspapers' habit of using almost no archery pictures except those of pretty girls. Actually, archery is among the most strenuous of pastimes. At the National Archery Association's 57th annual target meeting in Lancaster, Pa. last week, major object of attention was not pretty Jean A. Tenney of Clear Spring, Md., who won the women's championship on the meet's third day, but the 106-man shooting line for the 1937 men's championship. In this grueling three...
...publicize Los Angeles, its Junior Chamber of Commerce this spring decided on a "national aquatic show." To publicize the aquatic show, Los Angeles Photographer Eyere Powell last week made striking photographs of Swimmer Katherine Rawls diving through the bull's-eye of a large canvas target and U. S. High-diving champion Ruth Jump flying through the air holding a bow & arrow in a "Diana Dive...
Fling a necklace of rough-cut emeralds on a blue tablecloth and you have what Bermuda looks like from an airplane winging southeast from the U. S. 10,000 ft. above the Atlantic. Only 22 miles long, the looped chain of low coral isles seems a tiny target to hit from Manhattan 783 miles away. But at 10,000 ft. a pilot can see 50 miles on a clear day and so can still spot his goal even if he misses 'it by that great a navigational error. Last week, as a Pan American Airways plane soared casually down...
...Port Washington, L. I. at 9:32 a. m., it skirted the coast to Atlantic City, then bored out over the ocean at 10,000 ft. above a fringe of clouds. With a 20-m.p.h. tail wind and guided by a direction finder at Bermuda, it hit its tiny target on the nose 4 hr. 45 min. later, slid to a landing in the azure waters of Hamilton Harbor beside the Imperial Airways base on Darrell's Island...