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...people who cling patriotically to the myth of U. S. supremacy in sport, the game of tennis has lately been a painful disappointment. Not since 1926 has the U. S. won the Davis Cup. For the past two years the ablest amateur tennist in the world has been that convivial young Englishman, Frederick John Perry, who last week made his 1935 U. S. debut by beating old Manuel Alonso in an exhibition match at South Orange. That Perry will win at Forest Hills next week tennis experts are unanimously agreed. If he does so, he will, for the first time...
Roderick Menzel, with the exception of Perry, is the ablest foreigner in next week's tournament. An enormous, shaggy-looking Czech, who frequently plays in shorts, he is celebrated off the court for writing mediocre poetry and novels, speaking five languages, and teasing his 4 ft.-11 in. wife by putting her on a closet shelf from which she is too small to clamber down. Neither his domestic eccentricities nor his tennis technique - awkward but effective volleying, a serve with a pronounced top spin - seem adequate grounds for his reaching the finals unless he catches one or more opponents...
...Christ"; Bed Reader. When Howard Hughes sold Jean Harlow to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it helped to ripen her friendship with Paul Bern, one of MGM's ablest associate producers. Handsome, slender, melancholy, brilliant and distinguished by his profound sympathy for other people's troubles, Paul Bern was called by his friends "a motion picture Christ." The phrase had no wide currency until Labor Day, 1932-the day, two months after his marriage to Jean Harlow, that Paul Bern was found naked in his bathroom, face down and dead, with a bullet in his brain. His friends might have...
...date approached, sports writers courteously began to reflect that it was within the realm of possibility for Levinsky to solve the problem by which more aspiring heavyweights had been floored. After all, he had knocked out Tommy Loughran when Loughran was still the world's ablest boxer of his weight. Attracted by this line of reasoning, the biggest crowd that has watched a Chicago fight since the second Tunney-Dempsey set-to, a wildly eager 40,000 that included six State Governors (Missouri, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan), a sprinkling of socialites, most of the underworld...
...talkative, Wisconsin-born musician in her late 40'$, Lotta Van Buren is the ablest authority on old instruments in the U. S. She studied piano with Harold Bauer, turned to lecturing in schools and colleges, accompanying herself on portable spinets and virginals. Seven years ago Yale University gave her her first big job -restoration of its fine Steinert collection of 50 antique instruments. Since then she has done similar work for Barnard College, the Beethoven Association, Cooper Union, many a private owner and John D. Rockefeller's picture-postcard Williamsburg, Va. Miss Van Buren has a notable collection...