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...perjured, rum-soaked, libidinous lot." When he failed either to substantiate or retract his charges, a grand jury denounced him for "dragging New York into the mire and wiping his feet on it." He determined to collect proof of his charges personally. Disguised in checked black & white trousers, red flannel tie and slouch hat, as a rich Westerner eager to see New York, he went at night into brothels and Chinese opium dens, consorted with gamblers, crooks and prostitutes in Manhattan's red light districts. In one month he collected 284 affidavits to prove his case, therewith forced...
...Anna Dall drove in from Chicago. That afternoon he and Miss Googins, refreshed by a swim, were married by a retired Congregationalist minister (the Roosevelts are Episcopalians), on the Swiler lawn overlooking the Mississippi. The bride wore white georgette crepe. The groom, who also received a ring, wore flannel trousers, camel's hair coat. Five hundred neighbors gaped through the shrubbery, but only the bride's family and Mrs. Dall attended the ceremony. Police arrested a Chicago cameraman, broke his plates when he tried to photograph the wedding...
Bunny Austin of England, playing in flannel shorts and white socks, beat Keith Gledhill in three sets. Vivian McGrath of Australia who holds his racket with both hands for backhands, surprised his Davis Cup teammates by losing to Harry Lee of England. Ellsworth Vines twisted his ankle but proved it was nothing serious by making short work of little Ryusaka Miki of Japan. Next day Lester Stoefen of Texas and George Patrick Hughes of Ireland defeated Lee and Clifford Sutter, respectively. Little Henri Cochet. who had been riding a bicycle to harden his leg muscles, did amazingly well...
...tending a machine in a candy factory at 80 rubles per month. Thence he went to Leningrad, took another job as chauffeur for Intourist at 250 rubles. At the end of three months he returned to the U. S., second class, wearing a wrinkled brown suit, khaki shirt, flannel tie, battered cap, carrying two pieces of luggage and a cardboard box. He bubbled with enthusiasm over the Russians who, he felt, had "the answer to the future." Such is his practical background for the forthcoming investigation of U. S.-U. S. S. R. relations...
...people clambered up the bleachers. Dozens more dotted the roofs of the dingy apartment houses nearby-to look down into the football arena which had been converted into summer concert grounds for the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Willem van Hoogstraten, looking like a college boy in his white flannel pants, made the opening concert a memorial to Brahms and Wagner.* He flicked his baton in militant, routine fashion but most of the orchestramen needed no leading. They could have played the familiar music with their eyes shut. And the 12,000 listeners, few of whom think of paying winter concert...