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Helen Hull Jacobs, daughter of a well-to-do mining engineer, was born in Globe, Ariz, in the summer of 1908. Her family spent the following winter in California in a house rented from Author Willard Huntington Wright (S. S. Van Dine). At the age of six months, Helen was presented to Tennist May Sutton, an acquaintance of her mother. Just before the War, the Jacobs family moved to San Francisco. When she was 13, Mr. Jacobs gave his daughter an old tennis racquet, taught her how to use it. The day she won a set from him, she entered...
...beat any other girl player in the world. She left the University of California as a senior in 1930. She fulfilled an ambition to write; of three able books her autobiography, Beyond the Game, is last and best. She was taught to ride to hounds by Henrietta Bingham, daughter of the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. She achieved the goal of all young female notables by establishing a fashion in clothes. This was when Bunny Austin advised her to play tennis in shorts and she did so in the presence of Queen Mary...
...Harvard Observatory, described the first known star to become a Cepheid while under observation. Ten years ago it began to pulse every two weeks, the period gradually lengthening to three weeks. Discoverer was not Dr. Shapley but another able member of the Harvard staff: Miss Henrietta Hill Swope, 33, daughter of General Electric's President Gerard Swope...
Newport's pious Mrs. Aymar Johnson, wife of a Manhattan broker, daughter of a Manhattan realtor, granddaughter of two Episcopal ministers, had worked mightily preparing the way for the Oxford Groupers. By the time they reached the resort, Mrs. Lawrence Lewis Gillespie, whose daughter Eileen came within an ace of marrying John Jacob Astor III, had arranged a large reception for them. The godmother of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Mrs. Henry Parish, put up one team member. The wife of the head of the Allerton Hotels system, Mrs. James Stewart Cushman, vice president of the World...
Died, Mrs. Katherine Elkins Hitt, 50, racehorse owner, much-publicized daughter of West Virginia's late Senator Stephen Benton Elkins; in Manhattan. Long courted by the late Duke of Abruzzi, cousin of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele III, she reputedly passed him up when he failed to get the throne of Albania...