Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jack Herbert James, Donald Carl Johnson, Willy Ludwig Kraus, Eric Larrabee, Walter Jay Lear, Perry Deyo LeFevre, Martin Lubin, Roger Thurston Lyford, Werner Karl Mass, Robert Lempereur McMurtrie, Harold Morton Mooney, James Wiliam Morley, Albert Stanley Murphy...
...ever captured the U. S. Singles championship. Britons have-H. L. Doherty in 1903, Fred Perry in 1933-34-36. So have Frenchmen-René Lacoste in 1926-27, Henri Cochet in 1928. Nearest an Australian ever came to the U. S. title was in 1933, when steady, sturdy Jack Crawford (French, English and Australian champion that year) was nosed out of a tennis grand slam in the final...
Last week, as the 58th U. S. Singles tournament warmed up at New York's Forest Hills, it looked as if the Australians (John Bromwich, Adrian Quist, Jack Crawford, Harry Hopman) who had come to the U. S. this summer might well take back to the Antipodes not only the Davis Cup which they won last fortnight and the U. S. Doubles title (won by Quist & Bromwich last month), but-at long last-the U. S. Singles championship...
...Life in the native Indian state of Ranchipur is going on placidly until the rains come. Then a San Francisco earthquake breaks the dam at the most inopportune moment, inundating Ranchipur in a flood more terrible, if less widespread, than that of The Green Pastures. A plague of Yellow Jack virulence breaks out, inducing the Ranchipur authorities to start a fire that burns as brightly as did the conflagration in In Old Chicago. Most cinemaddicts will wonder why, having carried this chain of horror so far, Producer Zanuck failed to find a pretext to recall The Hurricane...
...Wizard of Oz (Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr; TIME...