Word: helens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Helen Wills and plump Francis Hunter lost, as they did last year, the mixed doubles, to scampering Henri Cochet of France and Eileen Bennett of England (6-3, 6-2). Told that future English tournaments might prohibit her barelegged play, Miss Wills observed icily: "I did not discard stockings as a fad. I have done it to increase my speed." Her speed won the women's singles again. She trounced Eileen Bennett (6-2, 7-5) and Mme. Rene Mathieu, No. 1 Frenchwoman...
Died. Edward Francis ("Mister") Gallagher, 56, once famed comedy singer with Al ("Mister") Shean; for four years a paralytic cripple; in Astoria, L. I. Four times married, thrice divorced, once wealthy, "Mister" Gallagher died penniless, supported for the last three years by his third wife (Helen Rogers Gallagher...
...William Tatem Tilden II, who said last week in Liberty that after 1929 he would play no more international tennis ; Helen Wills, who made no such statement; Francis T. Hunter, Junior Coen. Other U. S. players of high calibre were engaged in a Davis Cup preliminary at Washington...
...matches went on, Helen Wills and her sister Californian Edith Cross were roundly beaten by Elia de Alvarez and Kea Bouman, who won the doubles championship...
...Margaret Harting, the daughter of a pacifist lecturer, and loved her. Then duty called. Someone had been assassinated. He returned to Clavery and met (a) the villain, Michael, would-be usurper of the throne, whom he shoots for the mad dog of a militarist he is; (b) Princess Helen of Saevia whom he loves, and marries, without any regrets for the U. S. girl. As a novel, The King Who Was a King is thus unconventional in form. The fact that it is the author's description of a possible film, gives the story an effect less real than...