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...Lester M. Gillis, alias George ("Baby Face") Nelson, 25, second-in-command of the Dillinger gang. Robbery put Gillis in Joliet in 1931. Last January he helped kidnap Edward G. Bremer in St. Paul. In April he killed a Federal agent while the Dillinger gang was shooting its way out of the Little Bohemia roadhouse in Wisconsin. The U. S. will...
...Perry or if Shields could beat England's No. 2 dapper little Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin, the U. S. had a fine chance to win the Davis Cup for the first time in eight years. In the other three matches, it was agreed that George Lott and Lester Stoefen could scarcely fail to demolish any doubles team England could put on the court; that Wood would probably beat Austin; and that Perry would certainly beat Shields. The draw scheduled both crucial singles matches for the first day of the series...
Odds promptly changed to 6-to-1 in favor of Australia. In the locker room a spectator called to George Lott: "It's up to you to get in there and win!" Said Lott: "Yes, but what's the use?" True to form, Lott and towering Lester Stoefen two days later smashed through Crawford and Adrian Quist, 6-4, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4. The fact that Crawford played poorly gave the U. S. team a glimmer of hope that they might still reach the challenge round against England this week...
...offer of a good teaching job was all that gave Henry Lester Smith to Education instead of to the clothing business when he finished college. Last month Mrs. Smith received a Ph.D. at Indiana and next autumn his daughter Martha, eldest of the Smith children, will enter the university at 16. Affable and joke-loving, N. E. A. President Smith plays an occasional round of golf but spends most of his spare time on his single hobby: World Peace through Education...
...stood Psychologist Lester Winthrop Dearborn, 40, of Boston, stocky, soft-spoken president of Massachusetts Society for Social Hygiene. To consult him in Boston, he reported, had lately come 200 engaged couples. As with Dr. Dickinson's, half his couples were not waiting on ceremony. "Does continence make for happiness?" cried Dr. Dearborn. "The answer is 'No.' The problems of those who had practiced continence were exactly the same as those who had not. I know of five young students of theology who confessed they had had relations with women they later married...