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Last month many U. S. sport headliners were asked to donate their services for the Finnish Relief Fund. Among them were America's six top-notch professional tennists: Donald Budge, Ellsworth Vines, Fred Perry, Bruce Barnes, Berkeley Bell and greying, 47-year-old Bill Tilden, back in the U. S. after nearly three years abroad. In Manhattan's 71st Regiment Armory they did their bit-in a four-hour, five-match show with...
Fortnight ago young Robert Ellsworth Gross, president of Lockheed Aircraft Corp., published an unaudited preview of his 1939 annual report: sales, $35,303,444, up 244% from 1938; net earnings in excess of $3,140,000 ($4.05 a share), up 610%; unfilled orders over $40,000,000 (they jumped to $70,000,000 last week). Bob Gross's preview was incidentally a potent sales talk for an operation that took place last week. It was a type of operation that has threatened to become obsolete: a public offering of common stock to obtain new capital...
...high schools teach many things, but in most of them one subject is taboo -sex education. When Ellsworth B. Buck, a New York City School Commissioner, tried to break the taboo this year, he failed (TIME, Feb. 13). Last week the advocates of sex education tried again. This time they had the U. S. Government behind them...
...Lanky Ellsworth Vines, 28, of Pasadena: the 13th annual tournament of the U. S. Professional Tennis Association (in which were entered all the top-ranking U. S. pros, with the notable exception of Don Budge); defeating Defending Champion Fred Perry in the final, 8-6, 6-8, 6-1, 20-18; in the movie set setting of the Beverly Hills Tennis Club, at Beverly Hills, Calif. Star attraction of the tournament was greying, still garrulous Bill Tilden, who, in his first appearance on a U. S. tennis court in almost three years, demonstrated that he still has the most formidable...
...smart young men who prowled around among the aviation industry's crack-ups in 1932, looking for a wreck to repair and fly, was Harvardman Robert Ellsworth Gross. After a venture in 1928 with Stearman Aircraft Corp. (which he sold to United Aircraft and Transport Corp. within a year after he bought it) and another with Viking Aircraft, which had a not-so-happy ending in the 1929 crash, he had plenty of ambition but little money in his pocket when he learned that Lockheed was for sale...