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...demurely, Mrs. Fabyan started the day by playing rings around pretty Kay Stammers, who had beaten Helen Jacobs, the U. S. No. 1, the afternoon before. Miss Jacobs promptly put the U. S. back at a disadvantage by losing to Dorothy Round, then promised "a nice present" to Carolin Babcock if she could win against Ruth Mary Hardwick. Carolin Babcock did so, ran up to claim her present. Instead of producing one, Miss Jacobs got up to take the court with Mrs. Fabyan for the doubles match against Freda James & Kay Stammers which would end the series. The English pair...
...their posthumous child, Christopher Smith Reynolds, 3, went approximately $7,000,000. To Anne Cannon Reynolds, 5, the dead tobacco heir's other child by a previous marriage, went some $10,000,000. To Richard Joshua Reynolds, the dead man's brother, and to Mrs. Charles Babcock and Mrs. Henry Walker Bagley, his two sisters, went the $10,000,000 residue. Before any of it can be transferred, the U. S. will get some $8,500,000 inheritance...
Women. The absence of Helen Wills Moody gave her archrival, Helen Jacobs, a chance to become the first woman who has ever won the U. S. Singles Championship four years in a row. Her major obstacles were Sarah Palfrey Fabyan, Carolin Babcock and left-handed Kay Stammers of England...
...Stammers took care of Carolin Babcock in the quarterfinals. Sarah Palfrey Fabyan took care of Kay Stammers the next day. On the afternoon of the Allison-Perry match, to which her characteristic bad luck made her own triumph an anticlimax, Helen Jacobs quickly and calmly took care of Sarah Palfrey Fabyan herself...
...little money as the possessor of vast and mysterious gifts. But Grant's blind spot seems to have been singularly elastic, now large and now small, now enabling him to see through the most ingenious maneuvers of his enemies and now permitting him to adhere to men like Babcock, his confidential secretary, who "fished for gold in every stinking cesspool." That Grant's career was inconsistent, Dr. Hesseltine fully realizes. He seems less aware of its grotesqueness, its humor, and its influence on the course of democratic government. As a result the two brief chapters in The Education of Henry...