Show These Women They Really Reay Manage to Do Things By ADELAIDE KERR Two queens of the business world world international international champions in typing speed speed drew drew d-drew drew almost as much admiring attention in New NewYork NewYork NewYork York recently as visiting movie queens One was tall chic brunet Stella Whims professional woman woman woman wo wo- man champion typist of the world whose record of words a minute for an hour hour- said to be the fastest ever made in that time has stood since she established it in Chicago in 1937 The other was pretty blond Grace Phelan who holds the womans woman's amateur record of words a minute for half an hour made at the worlds world's fair in 39 Its It's interesting to note that the professional champs champ's word count countis is lower than the amateurs amateur's largely because of that half hours hour's difference in time which time which is the only difference between the two competitions Both champions sat in the midst of the National Business shows show's display at Grand Central palace in New York and their typewriters at terrific speed before gaping crowds They kept up a running fire of repartee as they typed Miss wife of a New NewYork NewYork NewYork York attorney wrote words a minute while carrying on a conversation and typed the al alphabet alphabet alphabet al- al five times backward and forward in 30 seconds One admiring male asked How did your husband propose propose propose pro pro- pose Not on bended beaded knee she answered an an- and and raced right on up the alphabet Miss Phelan who worked her herway herway herway way through college on her typewriter demonstrated her velocity on a word short-word memorized memorized mem men speed sentence at which she claims to have hit words a minute It had many one and two letter words in it but the audience got pretty dizzy watching watching watching watch watch- ing Miss Phelan just the same Both champions who made their official records on previously previously previously unseen copy under the direction of the International Commercial Schools contest committee now travel around the country giving Toni Hughes haunts hardware hardware hardware hard hard- ware stores And plumbing shops And dime stores At other times you can find her dressed in slacks and a turtleneck turtleneck turtleneck turtle- turtle neck sweater working in her New York studio on her famous hardware arabesques to decorate decorate deco deco- rate mate drawing rooms gardens and display windows They're fantastic creatures made of chicken wire perforated metal and plumbing tape spruced up with bright paint and a few things like gilded rubber balls They make table decorations garden hose holders and lamps Miss Hughes an artist who comes from Portland Ore and andis is en route to Hollywood stumbled stumbled stumbled bled onto the hardware arabesque arabesque ara ama idea while working out illustrations for a childrens children's fairy tale about mechanical characters Now she turns out such things as Peep Bo-Peep a jaunty figure with a chicken- chicken wire dress and perforated metal bonnet mounted on a collender turned upside down Blossoms stuck in the coIl collender's enders ender's h holes les make it look as though Peep Bo-Peep is standing on a hill of flowers Another trick is a music box topped with wire chicken-wire angels having perforated metal wings and gilded rubber ball heads Pretty Betty Grasser Crasser couldn't skate a lick a little more than thana a year ago Now she spends 50 hours a week teaching beginners beginners beginners begin begin- ners at Manhattans Manhattan's Gay Blades rink Between January and June 1940 she learned to skate by practicing on a pressure high-pressure schedule of five hours a day She says teaching has taught her that men and women learn equally quickly but that business busi busi- ness and professional profession l men tackle the problem more more m methodically methodically me me- than anyone else and so have a bit of an edge on that score |