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...northern China. These new synthetic bristles are actually coarse strands of Fibre 66, and Weco claims they absorb only 20% as much moisture and dry much more quickly than the natural variety. Developed by the late Du Pont Chemist W. H. Carothers, Fibre 66 in bristle form is called "Exton," is made by forcing through small openings a synthetic resin known as "nylon," thus producing filaments in much the same way that rayon is manufactured. Because diameter of the bristles can be regulated in production, definite standards of "hardness" can be maintained...
Lowman (H) defeated Exton 6-3, 6-2; Hauck (H) defeated Skillings 6-3, 6-2; Sulloway (H) defeated Quinn 7-5, 6-3; Wyoth (H) defeated Rice 6-2, 6-2; Brown (H) defeated Leland 4-6, 6-1, 6-3; Page (H) defeated Creasie...
Hauck and Lowman (H) defeated Skilling and Quinn 6-2, 6-1,; Gordon and Bolton (H) defeated Exton and Friedheim 6-2, 6-2; Rice and Leland (B) defeated Page and Wyeth...
Holding down the doubles assignments will be Lowman and Hauck, Andy Page and Wyeth, and sophomores Don Gordon and Oliver Bolton. Brown will use Exton at number one, Skillings at two, Quinn at three, Rice at four, Leland at five, and Williams...
Died. Archibald Marshall, 68, humorist, novelist (Peter Binney, Undergraduate; The Graftons; Exton Manor; The Claimants) ; in Cambridge, England. His 30-odd novels of quiet, peaceful English country life were compared, over his mild objections, to those of Anthony Trollope...