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...possessor of the traditionally incompatible faculties is usually bored by undue reference to them, as was National Women's Tennis Champion Helen Wills, last week, when newspaper men panted up to ejaculate and interrogate about her election to Phi Beta Kappa. In red blazer, white skirt, her hair in a bun, she was about to play a set or two of the sport she dominates and she bounced her ball impatiently during the rigmarole of questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: High-B | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

...possessor of the traditionally incompatible faculties is usually bored by undue reference to them, as was National Women's Tennis Champion Helen Wills, last week, when newspaper men panted up to ejaculate and interrogate about her election to Phi Beta Kappa. In red blazer, white skirt, her hair in a bun, she was about to play a set or two of the sport she dominates and she bounced her ball impatiently during the rigmarole of questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: High-B | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

Anderson is tall as a barber's pole. He often wears a blazer striped like one. With the deliberate elegance, so typically British, which is seen to best advantage in Australians, Canadians, South Africans and Russians, he strides about. dealing titanic strokes. Tilden occasionally hits as hard as Anderson. Few other players compare with him for power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: National Tennis | 9/28/1925 | See Source »

White flannels better tailored . . . a blazer gaudier. (Page 30, column...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Jul. 27, 1925 | 7/27/1925 | See Source »

...Brookline. Little men have the name of being compact with greater en- durance than big men. It is not always the case. Last week Gerald L. Patterson of Australia, a tall and sturdy fellow whose white flannels are better tailored, whose blazer is gaudier, than those of any other gentleman in tennis, indulged in an endurance test with wiry Takeichi Harada of Japan, discomfited him, 5-7, 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 6-1, to win the Longwood Bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: Jul. 27, 1925 | 7/27/1925 | See Source »

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