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...Harold Hilton of England won both British and U. S. Amateur Championships. Bobby Jones won both (in addition to both Open Championships) in 1930. Last week, the golfer who played Goldman in the final had a chance to do the same thing. Huge, round-faced William Lawson Little learned his golf on a course laid out on the site of a graveyard near Tientsin where his Army-Officer Father was stationed. He beat an unemployed carpenter in the final of the British Amateur at Prestwick last spring (TIME, June 4). Last week in Brookline Golfer Little had, as usual, been...
...pair entered vaudeville through the back room of a Brighton, England barroom. Their mother, an unmarried barmaid, sold the infants to the proprietors, a family named Hilton, for exhibition purposes. The Hiltons' daughter married one Rothbaum who changed his name to Meyer Meyers and took the twins to the U. S., where their stage and sideshow appearances earned enough for a mansion at San Antonio, Tex. and a portfolio of securities...
Adult, 26, worldlywise, once named as corespondents in a Kansas City divorce action. Daisy-&-Violet Hilton argued last week that they knew what they were doing about marriage. They cited Chang-&-Eng, the actual Siamese whom P. T. Barnum made so famed that all conjoined twins thenceforth have been called "Siamese." Chang-&-Eng (1811-74) took the name Bunker and married daughters of David Yates, North Carolina minister. The wives kept separate domiciles in which the brothers took turns living. Chang had ten children, Eng nine. Their descendants are reported still living in the Piedmont...
...Violet Hilton was the one who sought the marriage license in Manhattan last week. Prospective groom was Maurice L. Lambert, 29, of Westmoreland, Md., her orchestra leader. Daisy pleaded for her sister's right to marry, for she, too, was engaged...
...Violet Hilton swore last week that she was sincere in her desire to marry the orchestra leader. Marion, Ark. and Charles City, Iowa telegraphed the rejected trio offers of marriage license and minister...