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...tennis fans were startled, however, when Prime Minister Holcombe Ward (president of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association), Foreign Minister Walter Pate (Davis Cup captain) and the whole Amateur Tennis Cabinet, although left with inadequate defense for the Davis Cup and a potential loss of revenue thereby, publicly wished their golden boy godspeed in going over to the enemy, professional tennis. In fact, Foreign Minister Pate was host at the abdication party, invited Promoter Jack Harris formally to alienate the king in the Pate offices at No. 2 Wall Street...
...spite of a hard thumping in the last two games, wingman Pate Wentworth at left end can be relied upon to stop anything in the way of end sweeps that come his way. Likewise Jim Digel at the other end is strong defensively. At the tackies are stocky, 175-pound Dee Thompson and Bill Hurit...
Near Troy, N. Y., a WPA foreman saw a motorist drive smack into a road construction project. The foreman bawled: "What have you got above your eyebrows?" Above the eyebrows was the skimpy-haired pate of Works Progress Administrator Harry L. Hopkins, who later chuckled: "It's a great thing to be deflated. I found out I wasn't such a big shot...
...Hardy family collection were put up for auction, including two bits of Nelsoniana. One sentimental antiquarian bid nine guineas (about $47) for the manuscript of the Trafalgar prayer. Hottest bidding, however, was over a wisp of hair, which the auctioneer swore had been cropped from Nelson's pate by his vivacious and tenacious mistress, Lady Emma Hamilton. The seadog's wisp was knocked down...
...Morgan hammered both his former colleagues when he came to the Berry Marble Case. In the Senate Chamber nowadays, Major George Leonard Berry sits very quietly, a bit dejectedly, his thinning hair plastered sidewise over his pate like an oldtime bartender's. Now junior Senator from Tennessee, as well as President of the International Pressmen's Union, he was Coordinator of Industrial Co-operation in the New Deal when, in 1935, he suddenly hove into TVA's picture as a claimant for $1,600,000 for certain marble deposits in lands which TVA had flooded. Arthur Morgan...