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...York for years, and months often passed without major incident. It was polite in tone: prisoners were duly exchanged, flags of truce honored, and correct notes passed between opposing commanders (Washington formally returned General Sir William Howe's dog to him when it was captured by Americans at Germantown...
...with the U.S.L.T.A. over his amateur expense account or browbeating officials, Big Bill was taking on all comers on the courts. A self-made athlete who did not reach the top until he was 27, some 20 years after he first picked up a racket as a youngster in Germantown, Pa., he piled up a record unmatched: 31 U.S. titles, including a singles sweep from 1920 to 1925, three Wimbledon titles (he was the first American to win in England), eleven Davis Cup teams, including a phenomenal stretch from 1920 to 1925 when he never lost a match. Only...
Early last year a few Negroes began to move into an all-white section of Philadelphia's East Germantown. A number of other houses in the district promptly went up for sale. Real-estate brokers-many of them Negroes-moved en masse into the general area, asking white families to list their homes. When some white families refused to give listings, the brokers couldn't believe that they wanted to stay where they were...
Those elected are: Janet A. Heaton of Bertram Hall and Germantown, Pa., Government; Laura J. Klein of Moors Hall and South Orange, N.J., Romance Languages; Jeanne A. Nettel of Cabot Hall and Jamaica, N.Y., History; Karen Silberblatt of Briggs Hall and Hewlett, N.Y., Economics; Dorothea E. Waelder of Cabot Hall and Bethesda, Md., History; and Marian H. Wilson of Bertram Hall and Exeter, N.H., Biology...
...tournament was held at Forest Hills' West Side Tennis Club from 1915 until 1920, moved for the next three years to Philadelphia's Germantown Cricket Club, and returned to Forest Hills in 1924, where it has been held ever since...