Word: helene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Helen," she told a reporter, "showed more intelligence than I expected...
Married. Miss Helen Macfadden, 19, daughter of famed Bernarr Macfadden (publisher of True Stories, Physical Culture, Dream World, True Romances, etc.), sometime Follies girl, recently employed as a stenographer by her father at a salary of $4 per week; to Alexander Markey, 34, editor of several of the Macfadden sex magazines; in Manhattan...
...Mile. Lenglen had won the first set, 6-3. Both had been, at the beginning, too nervous to play well and too wary to divert with any spectacular activities the people who since eight in the morning had poured into Cannes along the highroad from Nice and Monte Carlo. Helen Wills seemed to be thinking too much. Suzanne Lenglen's nerves were twittering. Regal in pink silks, she had won her advantage from her opponent's errors. Then Helen Wills, driving at the corners, volleying and smashing, took three games in succession. Hence Lenglen's demand for the amber glass...
...Helen Wills threw up her hand in a staccato gesture of despair for Tolley's crumbling intellect, his blindness. "Out, out," shouted the spectators, confident that they could see better than Mr. Tolley, whose stool was a yard from the baseline. Possibly the ball was out; possibly the decision kept Miss Wills from winning the greatest match of her life. No one will ever know. Suzanne Lenglen, against whom some equally dubious decision had been called in the first set, ran out the set 8-6, and a moment later was borne from the court on the shoulders...
Last week Helen Wills (if it is true that she is keeping a diary) continued her entries in the red morocco notebook (TIME, Feb. 8, 15), somewhat as follows...