Sport: At Jones Beach

Eleanor Holm, who looks so much like a film actress that she has become one, kept her 220-yd. backstroke championship in a fraction of a second less than her own world's record of 2 min. 57.8 sec. Minnowy little Katherine Rawls of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.—without Georgia Coleman, who turned professional last year, to bother her—ran off with the loft. spring board diving title, 132.44 points to Dorothy Poynton's 123.64. Less freckled than she was a year ago but just as versatile, Minnow Rawls broke her own world's record in the 300-meter medley...

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