New Babe in Hollywood

Mildred Didrikson Zaharias, long No. 1 U.S. tomboy, is always looking for new worlds to conquer. Before she had completely established her title as the greatest woman athlete in history, she set two records in the 1932 Olympics. Once she scored 106 points in a basketball game. In the past two years, she has won every top golf title open to an amateur except the U.S. Women's Open, and she has won her last 17 tournaments in a row.

Last week, "Babe" Zaharias turned professional for keeps./- She announced that she had accepted a Hollywood contract to make ten movie shorts on golf for $300,000. The once boyish Babe, now 34 and given to silly hats and nail polish, made it clear that the decision was not entirely her own: "George and I talked it over for a long while and he finally said O.K." George is her 300-lb. husband, known in his wrestling days as the Weeping Greek from Cripple Creek, one of the few men who can sometimes better her average (240 yards) tee shots. ^

/- The Babe's amateur standing was restored by the U.S. Golf Association (1944) after she had ceased pro activities for five years.

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