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...unwillingness to be discouraged by his partner's errors-Stoefen made 80 in last week's three-hour final. Playing with John Van Ryn he won at Wimbledon in 1931. Last week's tournament was his first with Stoefen, a handsome 6-ft.-3½-in. Californian, who balances the team with cannonball serves, unplayable overhead shots at the end. He taught himself to play tennis on Los Angeles public courts in 1927, when Lott was already in the U. S. first ten. Then 16. a high-school football, baseball and basket ball player, he grew...
...fancy figment but a real live companion-secretary, Alice B. Toklas is a Californian (her father was a Pole) who has lived with Gertrude Stein for the last 26 years. Authoress Stein says she often urged Companion Toklas to write her autobiography, finally decided to do it for her. In the book's final sentences Gertrude Stein drops the thin disguise, says to Companion Toklas: "I am going to write it as simply as Defoe did the autobiography of Robinson Crusoe. And she has and this is it." In Robinson Crusoe Defoe does not appear, but in Alice...
...back to the U. S.: "I expect the Davis Cup will go back to Americawhen we take it there on our way to Australia." If Vines and Crawford play each other in the final at Forest Hills, the match will be like another between a hard-serving Californian and a steady Australian-when Brookes played Maurice McLoughlin in the Davis Cup matches at Forest Hills in 1914 and lost, after one of the longest first sets on record, 15-17, 3-6, 3-6. Since Tilden's retirement to professional tennis and Cochet's unmistakable decline...
Parts of Reader Skylstead's authentic report were incorporated in last week's closing March of TIME. Herewith all thanks to many another Californian who contributed a dramatization of the earthquake...
...sultry, oppressive atmosphere, electric lights blinked. A newspaperman, looking down on the city, saw the square 28-story tower of the City Hall sway ten feet like a huge tree. Masonry and cornices began to fall. The floor he was standing on bent gently up and down. An old Californian at his elbow said: "This is going to be a bad one." A cloud of dust began to rise through the stricken town...