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, Saskatton school girl, she set a world’s recor 1 for the high jump at the last Olympic Games in 1928, and to top that off she was selected as the most beautiful girl entrant. While “Miss Catherwood” is in San Francisco training for the 1932 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 Id the worftl that his wife, who can jump higher than any other "irl, woman,matron, debutante, or dowager in the world, is in San Francisco, training for the 1932 Games. “Which, of course, she will win—l mean the high jump,” McLaren said.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 12, 15 January 1932, Page 2
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