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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harry Richman, Manhattan night club man, explained how he became engaged to Clara Bow, cinema "It" girl (TIME, July 22). Said he: "I got tough with her. Instead of saying yes I said what I pleased and won the greatest little girl that ever lived." Next day Cinemactress Bow snapped: "When I need a boss, I'll put an advertisement in the paper." She said she was not at all sure about the engagement...
Miss Anna W. Pennypacker, daughter of the late Samuel W. Pennypacker (onetime [1903-07] Governor of Pennsylvania), was arrested when police raided a meeting of the Workers' International Relief in Philadelphia. Released the next morning she said: "I went to the meeting because I was interested. I would not have believed it possible that this could have happened in Philadelphia, the cradle of liberty. My ancestors came to America over 200 years ago in the cause of freedom and I thought surely we had it in this good old Quaker City...
...Number Two event of the U. S. Polo year came to pass last week at Rumson, N. J., where fishhawks nest on the telephone poles and the Shrewsbury River winds placidly into the sea. The National Open tournament next month at Meadowbrook will be U. S. Polo's Number One event for 1929. Last week's play was the National Junior...
With the cup at stake, young Player Lott played hard and headily. He took ten games from Cochet, including the second set at 6-3. But his brilliant shots were mixed too much with just-misses. His backhand was specially spotty. He let Cochet have the next-to-last...
...Miss Eleanor Goss, No. 5 ranking player in 1927, by the tidy score of 6-4, 6-0. In the finals she started to trounce Miss Edith Cross, No. 3 national ranker, by a burst of speed that took the first set 6-3. Miss Cross steadied, won the next sets 6-4, 6-2. But Miss Mary Greef will not again go unseeded at Essex. She lives in Kansas City. She is 19, a supple, medium-size blonde. She puts more body into her shots than most girls. Her friend Carl Meyer taught her how to play...