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...Francisco last week, reporters found famed Helen Wills Moody on a station platform with a trunk full of tennis rackets, bound for Wimbledon where the All-England championships start June 24. Retired since her default to her ablest rival, Helen Jacobs, in the National Championships at Forest Hills in 1933, she explained that she had been practicing this spring, gradually convinced herself that her game was as good as ever. Said she, about her trip to Wimbledon: "I just made up my mind to go this afternoon...
Since fear of Adolf Hitler drove France and Italy into each other's arms, it is no longer polite to remind Italians that French bombing planes from Corsica could be over Rome in less than an hour. Last week three of France's ablest pilots, North Atlantic Flyer Maurice Rossi, South Atlantic Flyer Jean Marmoz, one-time War Ace Paul Girardot, climbed to the controls of three Potez "56"' pursuit planes in Paris last week and took off with Air Minister General Victor Denain and other French officials for Rome...
...week, after eleven years of Philadelphia, Dr. Whyte accepted a call from another large congregation-Old Stone Church on Public Square in Cleveland. To succeed Dr. Robert Wilson Mark who resigned in 1933, Old Stone's congregation agreed unanimously that Dr. Whyte is the man-one of the ablest of Presbyterian pulpiteers, suave, deep-voiced, grey-haired at 45. Toronto-born and educated, he delivered Canada's message to the first World Brotherhood Conference (32 nations) in London in 1919. Dr. Whyte is an expert on church law. appears as counsel before many a Presbyterian ecclesiastical court. Father...
Whether Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler swallowed his artistic conscience or whether Nazi Germany suddenly decided that it could dispense with him no longer, no one was willing to say last week. However the reconciliation came about, Germany's ablest musicmaker was back on the podium, leading the Berlin Philharmonic for an audience that roared its welcome for 25 minutes...
According to Mr. Atterbury, the new head of the self-styled Standard Railroad of the World is "unquestionably the ablest railroad executive in the country." Martin Withington Clement, born 53 years ago in Sunbury, Pa., is one of the youngest presidents Pennsy ever had. He started with the road as a rodman in 1901 after graduating from Trinity College, trod the traditional path of railroad promotion until 1926 when he was made vice president in charge of operations. At that time and for years afterwards Mr. Atterbury's logical successor appeared to be his famed Vice President Elisha...