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...tall, slim, loose-limbed man of 37, Len Lye lives with his trim, pretty wife, Jane, and baby Bix (after Bix Beiderbecke) in a neat house and garden in London's suburban Chiswick. Before he went to England in 1926, Len Lye had worked as a farm laborer, carpenters' mate, quarry laborer, miner, packer, sheep-shearer and scenario writer for an Australian film company. In England he has earned his living as sceneshifter and flyman in a theatre, prop-boy in a film studio, "effect" man with film companies. Last month Poet Laura Riding wrote a pamphlet about...
...three lengths at Hammersmith Bridge, half way on the 4¼-mile course. The Oxford coxswain, Bryan, steered smartly toward the Surrey side. For the first time in the race his boat kept up but at Duke's Meadow bend a strong tide-pull stole the gain. At Chiswick, with Oxford nearly four lengths behind, the crews settled down to the hardest rowing of the race. At Barnes Bridge, Oxford made its final challenge. The stroke went up, 32 to Cambridge's 30, and the Dark Blue boat gained a length. But Cambridge met the challenge...
...months' leave from his job in a London sports shop, turned seriously to tennis, which he had taught himself on a public court in London by hitting a ball against a wall. By the time the six months were over, he had won a minor tournament at Chiswick Park, trounced Italy's No. 1, Baron Morpurgo, at Wimbledon, been selected for England's Davis Cup team, and defeated Jack Crawford in their first meeting at Bournemouth. That autumn Perry toured the U. S. and South America with a British team, winning the Argentina championship. The next year he reached...
...lighter Oxford crew drew ahead, with nervous high strokes. Another hush. Then the light blue, settling into regularity, caught up and moved on. At Craven Steps, marking the mile, Cambridge led by three-quarters of a boat-length, stroking 30 to the minute against Oxford's 32. At Chiswick Church, which marks two miles, Stroke Brocklebank had geared his men to 29 strokes to the minute and they had increased their lead to two lengths. On and on−past Duke's Meadows, Barnes Bridge, Mortlake Brewery and finally to the finish line the Cantabs sped with steady...
...novel Vanity Fair attends a school known as Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies. Few know that "Miss Pink's" is a real school. It celebrated last week its 100th anniversary, at Eastbourne, whence the school was removed some years ago from the original site in Chiswick Mall, London...