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...metres in 11½. An amateur matador, he killed his first two bulls when he was 15, was so badly wounded in 1925 that he had to give up athletics. In literature too he won prizes: France's Grand Prix de Litterature de 1'Academie Française, the prize of the Foundation Tunisienne, England's Northcliffe Prize and Heinemann Award. Author Montherlant, disapproving of the French policy in Tunis, refused the Foundation Tunisienne's 20,000 francs, handed over the Heinemann Prize to London's King's College Hospital...
...visiting New Orleans. . . . It's a rare privilege for a girl to play . . . across the net from Tilden. . . ." While professional tennists were starting their tenth season in Manhattan last week, the most famed woman amateur player in the world. Helen Wills Moody, was starting something else in San Fran cisco. She and Instructor Howard Kinsey set out to see how often they could bat the ball to each other without missing. Aiming at 5,000 times, they rallied steadily for 1 hr. 18 min., stopped at 2,001 (a record) because Instructor Kinsey had to give a lesson...
...meek, Maude Adams wisp of a woman who glides unseen and unheard through the monastic suites with pail and dustup, the life of one Crimson editor will seem a complete enigma. Mrs G. . . . to whom he wistfully refers as "the woman who allegedly cleans my room," is a German fran of no mean tonnage and poundage, who keeps both him and his roommate completely under her thumb. Unfortunately for his relations with his redoubtable keeper the editor is far from the paragon of neatness, and at any given time his bedroom looks much like the Biltmore ballroom on New Years...
...Remain Holland & Aristide Briand, who being the sole internationalists & brothers of men are blinded by their ideals & allow the enemies of their country to gain solid benefits, at her expense & safety, under the guise of this same internationalism. But you of the right, composed of L'Action Française the clerics, the Royalists & the pretentious. Should the country be turned over to your clique? You dare to criticize the past 60 years government. What about yours during Louis XIV, XV, XVI, XVIII & Charles X? ... You say your enemies are Communists...
...because he was Chairman of the Chamber's Stavisky Committee. Accusingly last week Old Guernut shouted across the Chamber at Premier Pierre Laval: "The plotting of the Fascist Leagues is undeniable! Their object is to substitute for the Republic a Fascist regime. They themselves avow it and Colonel François de La Rocque announces as imminent a seizure of power by his Croix de Feu. Not one of the men who have been brought before the highest court of the land, during the last 50 years, for treason ever menaced the country so seriously as do the chiefs...