MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL
OLYMPIC GAMES ATHLETE
The world's most beautiful Olympic Games athlete is a married woman, Mrs. James McLaren, wife of a Toronto, Canada, bank employee (states the "San Francisco Chronicle"). As Miss Ethel Catherwood, Saskatoon school girl, she set a world's record for the high jump -at the last Olympic Games in 1925, and to top that off she •was selected as the most beautiful girl entrant. While "Miss Catherwood" is in San Francisco training for. the 1933 Olympiad at Los Angeles, the news that she is actually Mrs. McLaren leaked out in Toronto. Her husband could not keep the secret any longer. He said that the marriage took place in November, 1929, and told the world that his wife, who can jump higher than any other girl, woman, matron, debutante-, or dowager in-the world, is in San Francisco, training for the 1932 Games. "Which, of course, she will win—-I. mean the high jump;" McLaren said,- . ."'..; ~;. . ; ■•
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 10, 13 January 1932, Page 13
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158MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 10, 13 January 1932, Page 13
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