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Major General Frank Ross McCoy, commander of the First Cavalry Division in Texas, to be commander of the 7th Corps Area (Omaha). General McCoy is diplomatic but loves a fight. Once when a Southern professor heckled him during a speech at Georgia's Mercer University, he retorted: "There are ladies here, but I would be glad to argue with you-or have a discussion with you-or have a fight with you." He is one of the few fighters of San Juan Hill still on the active list. At that battle, wounded in the leg, he was treated...
...peculiar baggy knickerbockers which hang down to his shins. Almost unbeatable on clay, he should be a member of next year's Davis Cup team, think Lott and Vines. Parker's father, Paul Pajowski, is dead. His mother entrusts him to the care of famed Tennis Coach Mercer Beasley, who fervently hopes he will get beyond his present height of 5 ft. 9½in. Beasley's greeting to Parker when he returned from six weeks abroad to coach the Davis Cup team: "What's the matter? You haven't grown...
...team this year made more elaborate preparations than ever before. In addition to Bernon S. Prentice, non-playing captain, and a trainer to prevent Vines from eating too many cucumbers, as he did a year ago. the U. S. team had a coach: famed Mercer Beasley, who will be tennis instructor at Princeton next fall and whose able book, How to Play Tennis, was published by Doubleday Doran last week. Comment on Beasley's behavior by Colyumist W. O. McGeehan: "All through the match between Vines and Austin he sat like Madame de Farge at her knitting, only . . . instead...
Author of Procedure in State, Legislatures and of many a treatise on municipal government, Dr. Dodds was for two years a member of the New Jersey Regional Planning Commission and is now chair-man of the Mercer County commission. Last March he declined appointment as State Emergency Relief Director. His biggest job in the past year was the survey Governor Arthur Harry Moore asked Princeton to make of New Jersey's Government. With 20 assistants, large, rough-haired, pipe-smoking Dr. Dodds worked four months without missing a class or lecture, turned in a 150,000-word report showing...
...training. Before he turned professional, he played well enough to reach the semi-finals of the national clay court championship in 1920. Now nearing 40, he is spry enough to give any of his proteges a match, beat most of them except Hines and Wright. Without the methodology of Mercer Beasley, who trains New Orleans tennists with special wallboards, scrupulous diets and a set of original aphorisms, Coach Kenfield manages to give his pupils some of the feeling for placement, the sense of anticipation that he had to develop himself because his size made it hard to cover the court...