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...topflight ski jumpers than any other spot in the world, little Birger Ruud won his first championship when he was seven years old. Since ski jumping is a matter of confidence and body control, Birger Ruud, like all Kongsberg children, supplemented winter jumping with summertime diving to keep in trim and help develop good technique. The Ruuds have a younger brother, Asbjorn, 18. who has already outjumped Birger. This is Birger's second visit to the U. S. and this trip is his honeymoon. When asked if he can speak English, his answer is "a little." Those two words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Norwegian Jumpers | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...showing the necessity for training, Peroy pointed out that he never smokes and that his physical trim is evidenced when he fences Levis and Pecora, who smoke but are 20 years younger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rene Peroy Willing to Fence All-Comers Despite 53 Years | 2/15/1938 | See Source »

...from the job on ground of ill health. To provide publicity for the balls and themselves, a battalion of major and minor Hollywood names descended on Washington in general, Eleanor Roosevelt in particular. Mrs. Roosevelt displaying what she insists is not a modified bob but merely a close side trim (see cut), introduced some of them to her husband, obliged with photographs and luncheons. Janet Gaynor, the President observed, was as "cute as a button...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Iffy | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...sturdy body bundled snugly against Minnesota's snow, Mrs. Maude Neale Lumsden, 26, of Salmo, B. C., entered huge (500 doctors) and busy Mayo Clinic last week. By & by a trim receptionist gave Mrs. Lumsden an envelope into which X-ray photographers, blood counters, uroscopists, gynecologists, internists and surgeons might insert their judgments of the young woman's distressed abdominal organs. Mrs. Lumsden distractedly examined the figure on her diagnosis envelope. With comprehension of the big number came the inner warmth which all men feel when they achieve distinction. Mrs. Lumsden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: 1,000,000th Patient | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...Jack Morgan never forgot his ambition, was often observed prowling around yachts. Last month he had a singular stroke of luck. Living aboard his trim 58-ft. schooner yacht Aafje in San Pedro harbor was a lighthearted, thin-haired sportsman named Dwight L. Faulding. The owner of a Santa Barbara photo shop and hotel, Dwight Faulding was once rich and foolish enough to have bought a plane which he took up without a single flying lesson, crashed spang into a Santa Barbara street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Paradise Lost | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

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