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...Donald Budge & Gene Mako, Carolin Babcock & Marjorie Gladman Van Ryn, Alice Marble & Gene Mako: U. S. tennis championships at Men's, Women's and Mixed Doubles respectively; at the Longwood Cricket Club, near Boston...
...futures markets, in Chicago and New Orleans. On the spot markets scattered throughout the cotton belt the morning's desultory dickering petered out. In Britain the Liverpool Cotton Market had closed for the day, but traders would get the U. S. cotton news after the races and the cricket matches. In Bombay, Shanghai, Osaka the Orient's cotton men roused themselves from bed or stirred impatiently in club chairs. In Egypt, where the world's finest cotton is grown on the banks of the Nile, the cotton men of Alexandria waited dinner...
...William Ewart Gladstone, he jibed so often at counsel and witnesses that he soon won the traditional accolade of eccentricity by being cartooned (in cap & bells) by Max Beerbohm. Never at a public school or university, he lost no chance to poke fun at sporting Britain, thought football "muddy," cricket a "bore," maintained that marbles was his game...
...four men. Before the matches started, the U. S. selection committee picked Donald Budge and Wilmer Allison for the singles matches, passed over Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, who had beaten both in practice, chose Budge and Gene Mako as the U. S. doubles team. On the courts of the Germantown Cricket Club, where France won the Cup from the U. S. in 1927, Allison, whose game rarely reaches its peak till late August, proved that this year was no exception by losing to Australia's Adrian Quist. After a long, see-saw match, long-legged Budge...
...born of a French mother and an Italian father who played the violin under Toscanini at La Scala. Except for his music the young conductor seems typically British. He was born in Bloomsbury, loves Bloomsbury, lives in Bloomsbury in a four-room flat. He relishes Yorkshire ham and cricket matches. But, like the Barbirollis before him, he took naturally to a musical career. At 11 he made a concert debut as a cellist. Later he toured through Europe with a string quartet. He started conducting in 1925, served for a time with the London Symphony, the Royal Philharmonic, the Covent...