Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good to be true") and to the anguished exhortations of her nine-year-old daughter (the youngest of four), defeated England's hard-hitting Eileen Bennett 3-6, 6-4, 6-4. British newspapers reprinted oldtime photographs taken when Mrs. Bundy, then May Sutton, became Wimbledon's first U. S. champion in 1905, repeating in 1907. Last week she was defeated in the quarter-finals by England's Joan Ridley but one moment of glory had been hers. Then she did one of the little things which all celebrities sometimes do and which, when they are discovered...
...Then I owe you a racquet," she said and fetched a racquet on which she signed her name, presented it to onetime Ballboy Wiggins. Twenty-two years ago, pleased with the Wiggins alertness, Miss Sutton promised him a racquet next time she returned. Last week was the first time she had played at Wimbledon since...
William Tatem Tilden II, 36, was defeated last week. Four games he won in the first set, only one in the second. In the third Henri Cochet was leading him 5-1. Suddenly, for a moment, returned the Tilden touch. His serves streaked into the court, changed direction when they struck, bounded far out of reach. His drives skimmed the net, his kills were invincible. But when the score was 5 to 5, Tilden's last fling was over. Valiantly he fought but Cochet took the next two games, the match...
This is the first, and one may hope worst, memoir of "the single individual who contributed most to the ending of the World War." If Foch was as Foch Speaks he was heroically inarticulate...
When good fellows get numerous, they start clubs. Last week in London a Guild of Air Pilots & Air Navigators of the British Empire took form. First member is Air Vice-Marshal Sir William Sefton Brancker, since 1922 director of civil aviation for the British air ministry, flyer since 1910. "Gapans," as the Guildsmen will be called by the current British initialing custom, must be licensed pilots or navigators of long experience, high skill...