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...summary: Malloy (M) d. Dorson 3-6, 6-3, 6-1; Hardie (M) d. Lowman 6-1, 3-6, 6-3; Hendrix (M) d. Hauck 6-2, 6-1; Frank (M) d. Fuld 6-4, 6-3; Gillespie (M) d. Sulloway 6-3, 3-6, 7-5; Duff (M) d. Henneman...
...newsstands was They Say, a yellow-jacketed, staff-written journal of opinion featuring "the views ... of the audience rather than the orator, of the pews rather than the pulpit." Publisher Herbert Hungerford, 62, onetime American News Co. executive, editor a generation ago of Success, and Editor Ross Duff Whytock, 48, former newshawk for the New York Evening World, hoped to secure their readers' views by offering good pay for good letters...
...Plucked up hope that it may be possible to tempt enough young men to enlist in the British Army without resorting to hated conscription, when the Duke of Windsor's close friend War Secretary Alfred Duff Cooper disclosed the plans of His Majesty's Government for "Kidding Kids Into The Army," as amused journals soon expressed it in headlines last week...
...description of new British Army barracks now being built. He implied that in winter these will be heated up to between 55° and 60°-this in a kingdom where many a peer would think it extravagant to keep his castle as warm as that. In addition Mr. Duff Cooper promised to spend $200,000 yearly on the unprecedented innovation of hiring British civilians to do the "K. P." (kitchen police) duties every soldier has always had to perform, and hated-such as peeling potatoes, scrubbing floors, picking up cigaret stubs, shining boots...
...Army's present three extremely hearty meals per day have not proved tempting enough, War Secretary Duff Cooper amid laughter and cheers upped the Army's gustatory ante to four meals per day, with butter thrown in to replace customary margarine and "for younger soldiers a ration of milk to build them up." Instead of having to take care of his uniform and replace it at his own expense, Tommy Atkins will at all times be "completely equipped free" by His Majesty's Government, not only with service uniforms but with a "walking out uniform" of fetching...