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Dates: during 1930-1939
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> 23-year-old Gene Mako of Los Angeles, who has played doubles (with Don Budge) on three Davis Cup teams and will probably be selected for the doubles again this year (maybe with Parker) if he can keep his mind off swing bands and the drums he loves to play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hot Shots | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

> Towheaded toothy Socialite Sidney Wood, magnificent stylist who has been an in-&-outer ever since he won the All-England championship in 1931 and this year, at 26, is seriously trying to make the Davis Cup team once more.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hot Shots | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

> Tireless, pee-wee Bryan M. ("Bitsy") Grant of Atlanta, oldest (28) and smallest (5 ft. 3) of the 1939 contenders, who has been among the top ten for the past six years and is famed not only as a tumblebug and crowd pleaser (he is almost as efficient horizontally as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hot Shots | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

*Davis was clad in drawers when he was nabbed by police in Philadelphia last winter in a room he shared with Actress Hope Dare.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 31, 1939 | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

To recover a clothes bill from dapper Gangster Lawyer Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis, who this week finishes a stay in The Bronx County jail for participating in the Dutch Schultz policy racket, swank Haberdasher Amos Sulka went to court. Some items: shirts at $18.25 (one day Customer Davis bought 16...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 31, 1939 | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

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