Word: browne
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bohemia's Brown Sirs...
...slight inaccuracy crept into your admirable publication of Aug. 12, p. 59. In mentioning prominent real estate operators you say: "A third onetime Russian is Frederick Brown, etc." Frederick Brown is not a native of Russia. He and the undersigned were reared in Karlsbad, the world famous spa in Bohemia now named or rather misnamed Czechoslovakia. Karlsbad has been German for 500 years, despite the fact that the authorities want to force the Check name Karlory-Vary onto the world...
...should have classified Mr. Frederick Brown with Mr. Joseph P. Day, whom you declare to be "no Russian...
...conclusion permit me to say that Frederick Brown and his charming wife, who is a native American, are persons of culture, have traveled extensively, and despite great wealth are very unassuming. As philanthropists they have a national reputation...
...score of other national titles were amassed in doubles courts and indoors. She gave the Wightman cup six years ago. The next year her husband, George W. Wightman, an able player himself, was elected President of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association. Mother of four, brown, firm, skillful, she it was who coached Helen Wills to win the singles title from Molla Bjurstedt Mallory in 1923. "Calm, quiet, generous and sporting," as Helen Wills calls her, she it is who deserves credit for the Wills-Wightman doubles championships of 1924 and 1928. Playing together, wise Mrs. Wightman and Big Helen...