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...sound a thrashing as the Wimbledon champion has taken in years. The score: 8-6, 6-0, 6-4. The result, on the eve of the U.S.-Sweden zone finals, made good gamesman Hopman a likely candidate to go down in Gamesman history with such famed experts as Frith-Morteroy (master of the art of Countering the Crock), Edward Grice (specialist in the Secondary Hamper), and Stephen Potter himself (inventor of the Jack Rivers Opening). It also left the U.S. singles line-up just where it was a month...
Queen Victoria, and most of her subjects, regarded William Powell Frith as a great artist. His work had a whale of a lot of work in it, and that seemed a good thing to the Victorian eye. Frith spent two busy years on his 3-ft.-by-7-ft. Derby Day, crammed the canvas with 3,000 spectators: a happy, seething mob of dandies, shell-game sharpers, yokels, gypsies, fine ladies, jockeys, kids and carnival performers on the green grass of Epsom Downs, under a smiling summer sky. The Royal Academy voted it "Picture of the Year...
...were 800 copies of William Powell Frith's famed "Railway Station." Old Graves gravers, sniffing at modern art prices, remember that this heavily varnished canvas was the artistic sensation of 1862. Royal Academician Frith sold the picture outright for $22,500 and received another $3,750 for waiving his right to show it in the Academy. When it was put on private exhibition, 21,150 people paid to see it in seven weeks, most of them subscribing for copies...
With perfect imperturbability Pearl assured him of the worst. Jack, scion of the aristocratic family Frith-Walter, was standing for Parliament-as Labor candidate. Alan was quite as shocked as Pearl. But she wasn't leaving Jack? Certainly. Divorce? Certainly. Vanished Alan's benignity, Wordsworth's philosophy...
Evidently they had. The next morning Jack from one Genoa hotel to Pearl in another Genoa hotel despatched a note. Therein he renounced his political ambitions. Instantly Pearl from one Genoa hotel rushed to Jack in another Genoa hotel. Frith-Walter congratulated her on influencing her husband to renounce Labor, secretly regretted that his son should abandon political ideals-indecent though they were&#!51;out of mere passion for a woman. But Pearl cast herself upon Jack, swore it should never be said he had given up his political career for a woman, announced that they were immediately returning...