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This is part of a program of the Union Committee and its Chairman, Langdon Marvin, Jr., '41 to bring outstanding lectures to the Union during the course of the year...
...good instance of how closely the old men of tennis keep their juniors tabbed when the four top-seeded players cleared to the semifinals. But there calculations began to go amiss. Opposed were Isadore Bellis, seeded second, and Joseph Fishbach, seeded fourth; William Gillespie, seeded first, and Marvin Kantrowitz, seeded third. Fishbach and Kantrowitz trounced their opponents in straight sets, prepared to face off in the final. Both slim, dark New York City boys, they learned their tennis together on a concrete court back of the De Witt Clinton High School in The Bronx. Two years ago when they were...
...Louisville, the President sent Secretary Marvin McIntyre to represent him at the funeral of the Ambassador to the Court of St. James, Robert Worth Bingham, who died suddenly last week in Baltimore...
Ohio's Vic Donahey has lately boasted that he will vote against the Pope-McGill Farm Bill pending in the Senate on the ground that he cannot understand it. This was practically the only complaint not offered by various rebellious members in the House last week, as Chairman Marvin Jones of the Agriculture Committee maneuvered his 86-page Farm Bill toward the first vote taken in either House on a part of the President's program for the special session...
...last fortnight in Milwaukee. Most important news was that Manager Jimmy Dykes of the Chicago White Sox and Manager Mickey Cochrane of the Detroit Tigers had worked a trade: Pitcher Vernon Kennedy, Infielder Tony Piet and Outfielder Dixie Walker of the White Sox for Outfielder Gerald Walker, Third Baseman Marvin Owen and Catcher Mike Tresh of the Tigers. Consensus was that Jimmy Dykes had slipped one over on his old teammate in the biggest deal of the year...