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...four men. Before the matches started, the U. S. selection committee picked Donald Budge and Wilmer Allison for the singles matches, passed over Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, who had beaten both in practice, chose Budge and Gene Mako as the U. S. doubles team. On the courts of the Germantown Cricket Club, where France won the Cup from the U. S. in 1927, Allison, whose game rarely reaches its peak till late August, proved that this year was no exception by losing to Australia's Adrian Quist. After a long, see-saw match, long-legged Budge...
ROBERT L. PITFIELD. M. D. Germantown...
Deacon James De Wolf Perry Jr., 27, is the third of his name in direct line to enter the Episcopal Church. Bishop James De Wolf Perry Sr. was born 64 years ago in Germantown, Pa., where his father was a longtime rector. Young Deacon Perry grew up in Providence, in the diocese of which his father has been the urbane, affluent shepherd since 1911. Headmaster Frederick Herbert Sill of Kent School, which graduated young James Perry in 1928, sermonized in the Providence Cathedral last week: "You have had the heart of a priest from your boyhood. You were dedicated...
Henry van Dyke was born in 1852 in Germantown, Pa., son of an old, conservative, well-to-do Dutch family. His father became pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn Heights, was notorious for his Southern sympathies before the Civil War. Once during that War a mob surrounded the van Dyke home, demanded that the pastor display the U. S. flag as proof of his loyalty, was dispersed by elders of the church. Mentioning such conflicts with obvious distaste, Tertius van Dyke concentrates on Henry van Dyke's idyllic boyhood, his carefree college years in Princeton, his travels...
...Year ago the slide-maker, now an elderly, respected bibliophile, went to the Modern Galleries with a few pictures illustrating the life of Lincoln. The manager was unable to sell them on commission, but, interested in other Bealeana, he went out to the slide-maker's home in Germantown to see what else he could discover. He found trunk after trunk of unused drawings, stowed away for 35 years. Few if any of them had captions and it was the work of months to sort into subjects and series the 1,676 pictures that Joseph Boggs Beale hoped...