Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Francis Hunter, who ranks second only to Tilden among American players and who was the finalist against Jean Borotra last year, will be the favorite, but by no means a top-heavy one, in an exceptionally strong field. Coggeshall ranks fourteenth in the country, and he is expected to be an easy winner in the opening rounds. Murphy, who was national indoor junior champion in 1929, forced Coggeshall to five sets in the University tournament last fall, and should do even better on the hardwood courts. According to Coach Harry Cowles, the Harvard freshman should be conceded an almost even...
...after The Beezer, caught him at the last jump. Now The Beezer was down, his saddle empty, the boy stunned on the turf; now The Beezer was up. Out of the crowd a girl ducked under the rail, caught him, rode him past the stands. In the enclosure she, Jean Sanday, daughter of The Beezer's trainer, proved that she made the weight-168 lb. She claimed $15 for being second. The judges consulted an old rule: "Any person of sufficient weight may catch a loose horse and ride him in an attempt to win . . . provided he be qualified...
Died. Mme. Louis Jean Barthou, wife of onetime (1913) Prime Minister Barthou of France; at Paris; after a long illness. Because of his wife's failing health. M. Barthou did not accept a portfolio in the recently formed Tardieu Government (TIME...
...Author. Jean-Richard Bloch, 46, born in Paris of Alsatian Jewish parentage, onetime schoolteacher, onetime soldier, is one of France's leading novelists, a playwright, director of a publishing house, assistant editor of Europe. At seven he wrote imitations of Moliére; at 26 his first play was produced at the Odeon. "- & Co." was ready for the press when the War broke out, was put on sale in August 1917, the day the German army entered Montdidier (50 miles from Paris). "This circumstance was not favorable to the immediate success of the book." Author Bloch read the proofs...
Says Author Bloch's great & good friend Romain Rolland, himself a famed novelist (Jean-Christophe): "I have known and loved him as a brother for 15 years . . . these stormy 15 years which have been the touchstone of souls and of friendships have only served to consecrate our mutual faith . . . within this virile artist who thinks as he writes, and who acts as he thinks, there is a character which is the equal...