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...left-handed Peggy Scriven. After the match was over, 6-3, 6-1 for Sarah Palfrey, she explained how she had done it. "I stopped thinking about how I was going to hit the ball and thought about where I was going to hit it." Because Alice Marble, a muscular California girl who had tired herself out with a 108-game match a few days before, also dropped off the U. S. team, Miss Palfrey had another match on her hands an hour later. She and Helen Jacobs beat Dorothy Round and Mary Heeley, who was wearing a glove...
...doctor was summoned, said that the paralysis was caused by a light stroke of apoplexy, that gradual recovery was probable. Joe Humphries balked when the doctor suggested a hospital, went instead to a nearby boardinghouse. The second day he had regained enough muscular control to smoke a cigaret...
Edouard Daladier fought in the trenches with much éclat. He was cited and decorated several times. Those were the days when nice young ladies "adopted" men in the service, knitted them mufflers and wrote them letters. Muscular Edouard Daladier's marraine was a Mile Laffont, daughter of a scientist. He met her on leave and married...
...jury without a Jew. He turned to his client, Banker Charles Edwin Mitchell, with a hand half-raised: "Look. Are they satisfactory?" Mr. Mitchell murmured grimly: "Satisfactory - perfectly satisfactory." They were mostly men of the comfortable, educated middle class. The court adjourned; Mr. Steuer patted Mr. Mitchell's muscular shoulder, ending the first act of an historic trial...
Suddenly last week the silence and serenity were rent by a voice not heard in New York since it was stilled by the death of the 72nd Congress last March. Short, swart, muscular Fiorello Henry La Guardia, insurgent Republican from Manhattan's Italian district who lost his House seat to a Tammany man in the Roosevelt landslide, raised his voice loudly to demand public support for one of the most startling coalition tickets ever proposed...