Word: johnstons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tarkingtonian tale of the pangs of childhood, in which are to be seen the growing or just-grown offspring of some notable stage folk. The cast includes the late William Hodge's daughter Martha, Ed Wynn's son Keenan, Author-Producer Dunning's daughter Virginia, Moffat Johnston's son Peter and John Drew Devereaux (grandson). Mr. Dunning has had a sign placed over the stage door: "Through These Portals Pass the Most Unspoiled Children in the World...
...only one player has actually got his hands on a U. S. Men's Singles Cup. That was William Tatem Tilden, who did it twice, once in 1922, again in 1925, and holds one leg on the present trophy. If Perry succeeds next week where McLoughlin,* Williams, Johnston, Lacoste and Vines failed, he will be the first foreign player who has ever won possession of a U. S. Singles trophy. Moreover, he will have done so against a field which includes, except for Australia's Crawford, Germany's von Cramm and England's Bunny Austin...
Ever since picayune Bill Johnston appeared on the scene in 1915, there has been at least one high-class tennist who looks as if nature had designed him for ping-pong. Currently, Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, a 5 ft. -3 in. Atlantan, holds this distinction. Equipped with almost nothing except a superhuman ability to get the ball back, his qualifications as a dark horse at Forest Hills are: 1) a grievance against the Davis Cup Committee for not putting him on the team for European play, 2) the fact that he has at one time or another beaten almost every able...
Tennis, a game in which size and muscle would appear to be indispensable, always includes one or more practicing peewees. Like Bill Johnston and Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, Mrs. Arnold, 120 Ib. and just 5 ft., often looks absurd when she comes out on the court, smiling shyly up at her opponent whose subsequent beating becomes all the more distressing. It would be in accurate to say that Mrs. Arnold's apparent limitations as a player disappear when her matches start. She covers the court in a series of wild scrambles, hits a jerky forehand that looks better suited...
Asheville is many miles away from Wake, Harnett and Johnston Counties where North Carolina's epidemic of infantile paralysis is most concentrated. But let not North Carolinians deceive themselves concerning the seriousness of the epidemic, which has affected 61 of the State's 100 Counties and spread into Virginia. Since May 1, 297 cases have been reported in North Carolina, of whom 18 died. To combat the epidemic North Carolina's State epidemiologist. Dr. Joseph Clyde Knox, has advised against children attending summer schools. President Roosevelt's good friend. Dr. Leroy Watkins Hubbard of the Warm Springs Infantile Paralysis Sanatorium...