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...night hour lying on the ground, looking at the stars. Purpose: to check a complex theory about the relation of the heavenly bodies to weather cycles. He is equally fond of integral calculus and boomerang throwing. Both have their uses: calculus helps in working out agricultural formulas; boomerangs, tennis, badminton, horseback riding give him exercise and open air. thus combating a faint family strain of tuberculosis which has not touched robust Henry Wallace...
...Davis Cup Challenge Round against Australia last summer. Chief rivals to McNeill and Hunt were: Frank Guernsey of Rice Institute, intercollegiate champion the past two years (neither Hunt nor McNeill competed last year); Ted Schroeder of Southern California, national junior champion; Dave Freeman of Pomona College, national badminton champion; Seymour Greenberg of Northwestern, national public parks champion...
Dosed with dilantin every day, Eugene galloped through his first readers in three weeks, taught himself multiplication without help, learned to play ball, badminton and card games, dressed up for formal dinner parties, played gently with year-old babies. Within six months, said Dr. Fabing, Eugene's mental age had leaped from six to ten. His progress still continues...
...David Freeman of Pasadena, 1938 national junior tennis champion: the U. S. badminton championship; for the second successive year; smashing onetime (1937-38) Titleholder Walter Kramer of Detroit in the final, 15-4, 15-4; at Seattle. Another young Californian, Evelyn Boldrick of San Diego, won the women's singles-making California look like the future kindergarten for badminton as well as tennis...
This week the U. S. Treasury released its figures on the top-ranking salaries of 1938. Of the first ten, top five were industrialists, last five were cinema folk. (Last year, Hollywood placed seven in the first ten.) Biggest salary went to ruddy-faced, badminton-playing Francis A. Countway, president of Lever Brothers Co., makers of Lifebuoy, Lux Toilet Soap, Lux Flakes and Rinso...