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Tennis fans had not forgotten the 1939 challenge round when Bromwich and Adrian Quist were down 2-0, then won the doubles and the last two singles matches. It might inspire the 1947 challengers to outdo themselves. It was also enough to put the U.S. stars on their mettle. In next day's opening match, Schroeder beat Pails for the clincher that kept...
...trimmings. In his old age the author-spiritualist had deposited in the vaults of a little bank in the village of Crowborough, Sussex an old cardboard hatbox. For 25 years it gathered dust as Sir Arthur and his Sherlock Holmes gathered legend. Finally Sir Arthur's son, Adrian, went poking about and last week the secret was out. The hatbox, announced Adrian, contained unpublished writings by Sir Arthur, including The Crown Diamond, a "hitherto unknown" one-act play about Holmes, and a mysterious manuscript entitled Some Personalia About Mr. Sherlock Holmes. This "unique document," said Adrian cryptically, would "explode...
...classrooms, and outsmarts his chilly fiancée, Rose Hobart, at the cat-&-cat game. In some bewilderment, psychologist and girl reporter fall in love. Typical side dish: a bespectacled adolescent, complete with outsized Adam's apple, who falls for Miss Wright. Best thing in the show: Iris Adrian as a stripteaser, uttering shrill little growls of self-esteem as she does-or rather, undoes-her stuff...
...VOYAGE OF THE CAP PILAR (360 pp.) -Adrian Seligman-Dutton...
...barkentine of 295 tons, named for a headland in Tasmania, and she was rotting at a stone quay in St. Malo when Adrian Seligman found her. Six years out of Cambridge and holder of a second mate's certificate earned in three years at sea, Seligman had a new wife, a legacy of ?3,500 and the uncertain future that everyone had in 1936. He bought the Cap Pilar, refitted her and sailed her around the world...