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Winning the women's championship for the sixth time as everyone knew she would, Helen Wills Moody had two alarming moments. One was when an awning caught fire while she was playing the semifinals. The second and much more dreadful one came next day when she lost a set...
Many a Manhattan architect out of a job sat down at his drawing board last month to plot a setting for legal beer. His incentive was a contest of the Architects' Emergency Committee. Last week the designs for taprooms, cafes and beer gardens were hung in Manhattan's...
"Heave to!" radioed the Java to the mutineers. "Show a white tarpaulin on the awning deck. Surrender and abandon ship!"
North Florida disgraced itself in Republican eyes last week when its fish turned Democratic and refused to take President Hoover's bait. As in Ossabaw Sound off Georgia the week before, the President trolled his line for hours in the waters about Fernandina but caught nothing worth keeping. Disgusted...
A handful of important Republicans went to Topeka last week to tell Charles Curtis that he had been renominated for the Vice-Presidency. They did not refer to the fact that about 35% of the delegates at the Chicago convention voted against him for a second term. Comfortably full of...