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...year-old Frankie Parker (né Pajkowski), the sensational Milwaukee ball boy who rose to No. 2 ranking in 1936, clinched the Davis Cup for the U. S. in 1937, slumped last year after marrying his foster mother, Mrs. Mercer Beasley, and this year-cannier, more confident, and equipped with a new forehand-has shown promise of returning to his top-notch form...
...machine (about which Engineer Herbert Hoover used to worry) throws oldsters on an "economic scrap-heap." Like the New Deal Mr. Downey had an inspiration to do something on behalf of what he calls, for campaign purposes, "our senior citizens." It came at a very timely hour when far cannier politicians were beginning to see the possibility of making pensions for senior citizens a juicier political racket than the ancient political exploitation of pensions for war veterans. Sheridan Downey won California's Democratic nomination for Senator from Senior Citizen William Gibbs McAdoo, 75. The manager of that performance...
...years ago Frank Shields was usually described as a foolhardy play boy. Cannier as well as more handsome than most of his confreéres, he profited from his tennis fame by getting a Hollywood contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer last autumn, spent the winter trying to act and flattering young cinema executives by playing tennis with them. In the three major tournaments he has entered this summer, Shields has indicated that he is, if anything, a shade better than he was a year ago, when he was ranked No. 1. He hits the hardest serve and probably the fastest...
...face. A furious scuffle ensued, continued. Some twelve minutes later a doctor was bending anxiously above the Italian-one Edward Shea of Chicago-while the Hebrew-Charley ("Phil") Rosenberg- remained bantamweight champion of the world. It had been an unusual fight for the reason that Rosenberg, though cannier than his challenger, disdained to employ the artful dodges of science, but traded punches with the wild-eyed, bloody-mouthed, berserk Shea. Many who saw the little men belabor each other thought of another battle in which a champion who could box met a challenger who could hit, said: "The biggest thrill...
...about a dozen men presented themselves, of whom two were chosen, one being a piccolo player, who was greatly needed by the club. Many new pieces have been added to the club's repertory, and the men are working with a will. The officers of the club are: H. Cannier, '89, president; C. Copeland, '89, secretary and G. L. Osgood, '91, leader...