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...Orange Lawn Tennis Club was Wilmer Hines of Columbia, S. C., another, Charles Harris of West Palm Beach, Fla. Harris lost his match to Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, who had beaten Leonard Patterson of Los Angeles the day before, but those were the only points East won. Hines thrashed saturnine Manuel Alonso, onetime Spanish Davis Cup star, playing for the East, 6-3, 7-5, and the series ended...
...lately been a painful disappointment. Not since 1926 has the U. S. won the Davis Cup. For the past two years the ablest amateur tennist in the world has been that convivial young Englishman, Frederick John Perry, who last week made his 1935 U. S. debut by beating old Manuel Alonso in an exhibition match at South Orange. That Perry will win at Forest Hills next week tennis experts are unanimously agreed. If he does so, he will, for the first time, actually become owner of the Cup which stands on a card table beside the court during the final...
...Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippine Senate and shrewdest of that crop of native politicos who have grown up in the islands under U. S. tutelage, was on his way back to the Philippines from the U. S. where he had seen Franklin Roosevelt sign the new Philippine Constitution (TIME, April 1). Before that Constitution was signed and before Filipinos in a plebiscite accepted it, Senor Quezon had laid his plans for becoming President of the Commonwealth. He had entered into a coalition with his onetime political enemies and between them they had agreed to a comfortable division...
Some 350 doctors will report on significant medical studies which they accomplished during the past year-from Philadelphia's Louis Manuel Lieberman & Simon Stein Leopold's "Further Data on Artificial Pneumothorax in Experimental Lobar Pneumonia" to Philadelphia's Charles Harrison Frazier's "The Modern Treatment of Surgical Shock." These papers will keep the A. M. A.'s Journal in ample copy for six months or more...
...party involved was the Sakdal (a Tagalog dialect word roughly translatable as "I accuse") with a membership estimated between 10,000 and 200,000 on the main island of Luzon. Four years ago Benigno Ramos began organizing the Sak-dalistas after Manuel Quezon fired him from the job of clerk of the Philippine Senate. Ramos' platform was calculated to appeal to poor malcontents: abolition of poll and land taxes, better roads, more schools, shared wealth. Significance of the Sakdal party name was its bitter opposition to the "favoritism and corruption" of Boss Quezon's dominant Nationalist party. Evidently...