Pour le Sport

Because the French Federation of Feminine Sports denied her application for an amateur racing license on the grounds she wore trousers and used language learned in the army camps of a martial grandfather, Madame Violette Morris of Paris, Olympic discus thrower and all-around athlete, sued the Federation for 100,000 francs. Because Nature had not shaped her conveniently for the accomplishment of her athletic ambitions, she last week horrified Paris by having a surgeon remove both her breasts. Said she: "Sport is all my life."*

*The ancient Amazons, whose lives were largely war, used to remove their right breasts to facilitate their archery.