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Despite a case of mumps which has sidelined him for the last few matches, Number One man Charley Ufford recovered enough to fight his way into the final round of the DeForrest-Tyler invitation squash tournament only to lose to Charley Brinton of the Merion Cricket Club 11-15, 15-12, 15-3, 15-10, at the Plainfield Country Club, Sunday...
...year, he lent 25 paintings to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Conservative Philadelphians scorned his moderns as "quack practitioners" and "cheats."Quick-tempered Alfred Barnes took his paintings back from the academy, locked up his collection in a $500,000 limestone museum on his Main Line estate at Merion, Pa. At the same time, he set up the Barnes Foundation to offer free art training to a limited number of carefully selected students a year. Since then, few besides foundation students and personal friends (including John Dewey, Katharine Cornell, Charles Laughton, Albert Einstein, Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts) have...
...Long. In Merion township, Pa., John Dopp McGhee explained to cops how he happened to be in a parked car on a lonely road at night with a trumpet, a pistol, a rifle and cartridges: the firearms were to ward off anyone who might molest him while he played his trumpet...
...second round began, the 165-man field was as keyed up as invasion troops on Dday. More than one old tournament hand had already come to grief along the tight, twisting fairways of the rugged Merion Golf Club course on the Main Line west of Philadelphia. A sample of the hazards ahead was the score-killing 11th hole, where a stream curls in front of the ice-slick green, curls back around the other side to swallow up any approach that overshoots the flag...
Died. The Rev. Joseph Fort Newton,* 73, rector of Philadelphia's Church of St. Luke and the Epiphany, author (Lincoln and Herndon, The Builders, River of Years'), onetime syndicated columnist ("Everyday Religion"); in Merion, Pa. Impatient of denominational differences ("barbed-wire entanglements about the Altar of God"), Dr. Newton was ordained a Baptist, served in several non-sectarian churches, including London's City Temple ("Cathedral of British Nonconformity"), before joinin'g the Protestant Episcopal Church...