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...singles P. Cox defeated L. Youman, 6-1, 6-1; S. Frieder defeated J. Baldwin, 0-6, 9-7, 6-0; E. Sehehi defeated E. Hale, 10-8, 6-4; E. Helfeld defeated R. Webb, 6-2, 6-2; D. Shapere defeated P. Tanphiphat, 6-0, 6-0; R. Holroyd defeated B. Bress, 6-0, 6-0; K. Smith defeated T. Atkinson, 6-8, 6-4, 6-3; R. Balkin and J. Pleasant forfeited...
...results of the first round; J. Baldwin defeated J. Joslin, 6-4, 6-2; E. Hale defeated J.H. Doherty, 8-6, 6-2; L. Youman defeated G. Phillips, 6-2, 6-0; D. Bress defeated P. Pitney, 8-6, 6-4; R. Holroyd defeated T. Klaren, 6-0, 6-1; J. Wurtzberger defeated D. Kristol, 6-3, 6-1; and W. Tucker defeated L. Baum...
Lilli Palmer plays Gillian Holroyd, an attractive young witch who takes a liking to a publisher (Rex Harrison) living upstairs. Although witches can't love, she casts a semi-permanent spell on him. Miss Holroyd (whose name means "Holy Rood" in archaic English), is just beginning to enjoy life when her witch aunt and her warlock brother arrive to tangle things up. A pathetic little author of witchcraft books is drawn to the apartment and his descriptions of "them" afford some enjoyable snickers...
...Tauchnitz was merged with its most powerful rival, the Albatross Modern Continental Library, managed by John Holroyd-Reece, onetime British cavalry officer, founder of the arty Pegasus Press and the Pantheon Series. He controlled his multilateral book business through Publishing Holding Co., with main offices in Paris, branches in London and Leipzig...
Until the war the Nazis permitted Tauchnitz to continue distributing its British and American authors, because this meant enormous printing orders placed in Germany. As late as August 1939, Holroyd-Reece wrote his Leipzig staff: "Tauchnitz has survived four [wars] and we will survive the fifth." One month after the Nazis marched into Paris they took over Publishing Holding...