Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-15
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Next Sunday.

-HE way Harriet came to lose her
'"hio chance" was due largely, so
neople say to her popularity OF tenn
She had always been girl who
,,oc rather set in her ways of thinking. she
had ideas of her own. 1t was nara TO S"ei'e
harriet Graham from her own conceptions Oh
life and living That was why, when she was
o. standing in her own front garden regarding
a small beetle under magnifying glass, one OF
her old school companions, flashing past III
roadster made this remark: "Theres gil
who lost her big chance"
PERHAPS 1t was all in the way you looked
at it. Certainly to compare Harrlets mooe Oh
life with what it might have been, had her Ideas
been different was to be forced to the cohciu-
sion that she had deliberately turned her BACK
ON some of the more spectacular aspects OF
existence
TT came about this way. When Harriet was
10. and senior in State normal college,
she was wearing instead of an engagement
ring the fraternity pin of an adjoining uni
yersity's most popular student, Tod Turner
Turner was one OF those men who seem pre-
destined for conspicuous achievement OF one
sort or another. He was a good student, star
half-back on the foot ball team, a local cham
pion chess player editor of a college weekly
and a wrestler of no mean ability
Every year he was voted the most popular
all-around man on the campus His MAJOR
interest was chemistry. When he was only IS,
Tod Turner had theory about the pasteurZa-
ton of milk which, if his experimentation
should prove practicable, would turther ihlh-
imize mortality among infants
1t was in connection with TINS WORK Iilat
Harriet Graham met him when they both were
taking the same course in dietetics under
visiting professor of international renown.
II was a college romance that eliminated IN
a college engagement OF more serious Sort.
They were a mature minded young pair; IDEAL
lists. but of a practical sort.
Harriet Graham and Tod Turner had con-
crete problems ahead of them. 1t made them
eager to be finished with the days of their en-
gagement and off in double harness toward the
fulfilment of their ideals.
And then there entered into the situation
something that. so far as Harriet was con-
cerned was bolt out of the blue, Fate, fortune
or call it what you WILL leaned into the lives OF
the two young students and rewrote their
destiniss.
"A ViStGlIly pnySlCdi QNSClOt 1IOHl Vi IAAC
worlds largest universities, happening to see
Ted Turner wrestling in the gymnasium. made
the public declaration in an interview which he
gave out on his return to New York, that the
most perfect physical specimen of humanity he
had ever seen was a senior in Middle West
university. That senior was Tod Turner.
The result was an invitation to attend an
Olympian game session in the East. After a
public wrestling match there, Tod was APP
preached by at least three men of international
reputation in the sporting world, who wanted
to take him over into training for professional
wrestling
The result is well known When Tod was
81. as clean-cut, as 1.-THE and as perfectly pro-
portioned as young god. he was a champion
lightweight fighter. Everything about him had
captured the imagination of the volatile Ameri-
can public. They made of him a national hero
His presence in city was signal to clog
traffic as he rode through the streets News
paper photographs of him made him familiar to
man. woman and child Material fortune
spilled cornucopias of gold at his feet He be-
came not only the rage of the sporting world
but hoSteSses were proud to add his name to
their lists. The small Middle West university
where he had spent his undergraduate years
was shunted into undreamed-of prominence by
It's famous student