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...Wimbledon last week, every one wondered who would play Henri Cochet of France in the final. They stopped wondering in the second round when Cochet, playing a sleepy match against an unseeded Englishman named Ian G. Collins, lost...
...Plymouth Harbor Sir Percy Graham Mackinnon of Lloyd's boarded the Artiglio II with the customs agents. Commander Quaglia was sitting in a deck chair under a huge sun umbrella. On their knees at his feet were two ship captains?one an Englishman, one an Italian?washing sovereigns in a basin, counting and bagging them. The ecstatic crew galloped at their jobs, contemptuously trampling and scattering bundles of rupee notes on the after deck. Commander Quaglia saluted his visitors. One of the customs men showed Commander Quaglia an official document: "Sorry, sir. A warrant for the arrest of the gold...
...United States in two words," declared Premier Benito Mussolini last week to a correspondent of Baron Beaverbrook's enterprising London Daily Express. While the Englishman scribbled, Il Duce continued: "The two words are Prohibition and Lindbergh! . . . Dry America will never find herself. She must go Wet to find herself! In the meantime Europe is drifting toward disaster and Bolshevization...
...Where are those saviors?" asked the Englishman politely. Scowling, Il Duce shot back: "There are no saviors...
...fingered the lucky necktie, decorated by a question mark, which his wife had given him. He had just reached the turn in 35 when a runner from the clubhouse brought him astounding news. Arthur Havers, who won the British Open in 1923 and is the only Englishman who has done it since 1920, had finished his third round in 68, a new course record, leaving him only four strokes behind. Rattled by the news, Sarazen took a nervous five at the loth. At the nth he mistimed his drive and the ball landed in the one clump of grass...