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...Francisco, onetime (1915-21) U. S. Senator; upwards of $10,000,000. Bequests: to the James Duval Phelan Foundation and other San Francisco institutions, $4,000,000; to Gertrude Atherton, "California's great authoress," $20,000, and $5,000 each to her four children and grandchildren; to Helen Newington Wills Moody, $20,000 and valuable works of art "in appreciation of her winning the tennis championship for California"; to many a friend in the U. S., South America and England, many a thousand; to two nieces and a nephew, most of the residue. Excerpt from the will: "I declare...
...Helen Newington Wills Moody, world's woman tennis champion, returned to the U. S., confirmed a report that, though she has won it four times, she has never seen the Wimbledon...
Last fortnight Helen Newington Wills, world's foremost lady tennis player, quietly married Frederick S. Moody Jr. in Berkeley, Calif., and departed immediately for a Pacific cruise on the yacht Galatea. The press followed her in a perfunctory fashion, told how a yacht club gave the pair a private dining room, how the Galatea had touched at Catalina, how they sailed away again headed south, etc., etc. There was, perhaps because of Mrs. Moody's well-known composure and lack of flair, remarkably little pother made for so newsworthy a person at so newsworthy a time...
...Helen Newington Wills at Oakland, Cal., had her tonsils removed...
Tennis. Women's National (Forest Hills, L. I.)?singles, Helen Newington Wills of Berkeley, Cal.; doubles, Mrs. Phoebe Watson & Mrs. L. R. C. Michell of England...