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Visiting Pierre S. du Pont's fabulous Longwood Gardens near Kennett Square, Pa. in 1926. President Calvin Coolidge passed in Yankee silence among exotic ixora, agapanthus, orchids, vanilla vines and breadfruit, finally spotted a familiar sight. Said the President: "Bananas...
...ranking Vic Seixas and Australia's third-ranking Mervyn Rose, the National tennis doubles championship, by defeating Australia's World-Beaters Frank Sedgman and Ken McGregor, 3-6, 10-8, 10-8, 6-8, 8-6; at the Longwood Cricket Club, Brookline, Mass...
...women's team, over Britain's best women tennis players, to take the Wightman Cup for the 15th time in a row, six matches to one ; at the Longwood Cricket Club, Brookline, Mass. In the fourth and clinching match, Britain's Kay Tuckey was trounced, 6-1, 6-3, by 16-year-old Maureen Connolly of San Diego, the youngest U.S. Cup team member in history...
...Though the Japanese did not distinguish themselves on the slow courts at Louisville, U.S. tennis fans will get a chance to see their stubborn base-line play on the faster grass of the tennis circuit (Southampton, Orange, Newport and the Nationals at Longwood and Forest Hills). And Ichy is looking ahead. He figures that in another couple of years the younger Japanese players will be on a par with the U.S.'s best...
...under President Charles William Eliot, another great expansion was prepared and plans were drawn up for the present buildings on Longwood Avenue at the head of Avenue Louis Pasteur. The cost of land, construction, furnishing, and providing a suitable endowment for the four laboratory buildings and one administration hall was estimated at $5,000,000. Money poured in generously, with large donations from John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, David Spears '74, Collis P. Huntington, and other individuals and groups...