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Vines's opponent in the final was Lott. The latter had beaten round-faced Doeg, the defending champion, who got as far as the semi-final on his courage rather than on his imperfect, left-handed shots. Lott, in the first ten for the last five years, had never reached the final before. In his match with Vines, who was a flash-in-the-pan a year ago but who had won three out of this year's four important invitation tournaments, Lott controlled his temper and his shots in the first set, which he won, after two narrow escapes...
...first work. He ''discovered" Zane Grey, Louis Joseph Vance, Charles E. Van Loan. Of his output he said: "Much of it is not literature. Little of it is great literature. It comes so straight and fresh from the loom of life that it may well be imperfect in spots and lacking that finish which a more meticulous taste might provide...
...portentous work, heralded and omened by illegitimate night lights and uncouth noises from Mt. Auburn Street, and by righteous uneasiness among Harvard professors, presents contemporary and past Harvard men with an opportunity to enjoy themselves. For the authors have held the mirror up to nature (albeit a slightly imperfect mirror) and the defects of Cambridge scholars--dignity, austerity, knowledge, etc.--come through the refining process of distortion until they are seen in their true light. Fifty pages of wit and caricature at three cents per page...
...years ago. Like Max, half the effect of his pictures is in the written cap tions that accompany them: A satanic gargoyle looking down on New York says, "Ah well, one lives and learns, one lives and learns." Jehovah being berated by melancholy Thomas Hardy for creating such an imperfect Universe, apologizes meekly: "Ah, Mr. Hardy, if you only knew all the circumstances...
...treated for it and refused life insurance because of it, asserted Dr. John Ralston Williams of Rochester, N. Y. Excess sugar in the blood is no positive criterion of the disease, he said. He proposed a method of exactly measuring the output of the pancreas (abdominal salivary gland) whose imperfect function is an essential factor in the cause of diabetes...