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Employing a fearlses net game that swept all before it, the CRIMSON tennis forces subdued a powerful Pine Manor team Saturday, on the Wellesley courts...
...CRIMSON tennis team will journey to Pine Manor this week to seek its annual victory from the Wellesley racquet wielders. The Pine Manor aggregation is headed by Tillie Alston and Peggy Carpenter, ranking court stars, while the CRIMSON forces will be featured by a smashing Bronxville-Minneapolis combination. Pre-game odds establish the local boys as strong favorites...
...world's social conscience may well rejoice when it hears the glad tidings that the international crisis has at last penetrated the cloister walls of that Wellesley-satellite, Pine Manor. The powers-that-be have decided to postpone their production of Archibald MacLeish's "Air Raid" in order "to avoid complicating the international situation...
...grandson, Henry Sturgis Dennison, is the present head of this family concern. A shrewd, eccentric Yankee, he is bald and sharp-featured, likes to tug at his eyebrows and play the violin, organ, piano; he also likes to fish and fly kites. When he built a $75,000 Tudor manor, he horrified the architect by refusing to have leaded windows. Said he: "I'm not going to have a view of 20 miles spoiled by tradition." Once, after he strained his shoulder chopping, a doctor arrived to find him standing in his living room clad only in khaki pants...
These and other innovations to win friends and influence people are the work of John Marvin Yost, a local boy who went into the bank 21 years ago and married a distant relative of its founder, Hotelman James Hatcher. Banker Yost, whose extracurricular activities include a model "Chick Manor" complete with running water and radio, launched his stunts one by one on First National's conservative directors. He says they "have tolerated, me because they . . . know I am honest, with one thing in mind: to run a good bank and make money." Last week Banker Yost rejoiced that deposits...