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...maid used the vacuum cleaner this morning, again spoiling my chance of learning her name. She said, "Good morning, Mr. Clay, may I come in?" Which greeting was more cordial than any I have received from the people in this dormitory...
...Germany into the Davis Cup interzone final four times (1932-35-36-37). He has played 74 Davis Cup matches and lost only 14, five in his first season. He has defeated every leading amateur in the world. Last year in the French champion ships, fortified by a cleaner backhand stroke he had learned from William Tatem Tilden, he beat Fred Perry for the title. Then the following month at Wimbledon he strained a thigh muscle and lost to Perry in the final...
Last year Painter Jackson died and was succeeded by slight, handsomely greying Harry Noyes Pratt, onetime editor, art student, poet (Mother of Mine & Other Verse, 1918) and director of a historical museum in Stockton, Calif. Director Pratt's first purchase was a vacuum cleaner, with which he took up two and one-half pounds of dust in his own room alone. Next thing he did was to clean and space the Crocker paintings, which had been jammed on the leaking walls like one-cent stamps on a special delivery letter. Then Director Pratt put on his old clothes...
Along the dirty waters of the Harlem river, and sometimes out into the vaster but not much cleaner Hudson, the crews of Columbia University have been rowing this week in a drive to beat Harvard and Tech on the Charles today...
...altering St. Louis' methods of burning fuel. Realtor Dickmann, who wants to be re-elected mayor during Passover, put his ear to the Lenten ground, telegraphed "my kindest regards" to Illinois' Governor Henry Horner and last week signed the ordinance which next winter may make St. Louis cleaner than Pittsburgh...