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...right now he had some nearer varmints to contend with-some visiting Australians, survivors of 22 nations which this year challenged for the Davis Cup. It would be the first cup "challenge round" to be decided in the U.S. since Australia took the cup home eight years ago. And next week, the 67th U.S. singles championship would get under way, with the best of the world's amateur stars trying their hardest to do the unlikely and dethrone King Jake...
...plus. The ten days of National Singles play would probably bring in nearly $150,000 more. The concessionaires were getting ready to serve up a record-breaking 30,000 hot dogs and 48,000 bottles of soda pop. Each morning, the 23 grass courts were being rolled a little nearer perfection...
...defined movement is emerging among the Catholics of France to have the Mass said in French and to popularize the translations into the vernacular; while at the same time influential bishops are recommending to the faithful the reading of the Bible. . . . The intended objective, however, is not to draw nearer to other confessions, but to render the Roman liturgy more appealing and efficacious. In Paris, the Holy Orthodox Liturgy is said in French in two churches, and an Orthodox branch of the Benedictines was formed during the war with a liturgy likewise translated into French...
...words of their own. Excerpts: "Once America reflected movements in European art 25 years afterwards; now it is Europe that reflects us 25 years later. . . . Modern Paris art has entered a vicious circle, walking around & around like a mule at a well. . . . Mexican mural painting . . . has reached much nearer the masses...
...nutritionist, Dr. Franklin Bicknell, had been right when he said that Britons were slowly starving. In France, the daily bread ration had been cut from 10.5 ounces to 8.3 ounces, may be cut again, and Premier Ramadier told striking flour mill hands: "Each day without bread is a step nearer disaster." The Communist Humanité headlined: "It is wrong to have believed in American promises...