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...house with his wife and children. Gordon Jr., 10, and Joan. 4. He plays the saxophone, on which his favorite tune is "The Lady in Red." He shares the enthusiasm of most baseballers for hunting, which he expects to do in Wyoming next month. He smokes Camels, has a ping-pong table in his basement, keeps a secretary to answer his fan letters-200 a week...
Ever since picayune Bill Johnston appeared on the scene in 1915, there has been at least one high-class tennist who looks as if nature had designed him for ping-pong. Currently, Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, a 5 ft. -3 in. Atlantan, holds this distinction. Equipped with almost nothing except a superhuman ability to get the ball back, his qualifications as a dark horse at Forest Hills are: 1) a grievance against the Davis Cup Committee for not putting him on the team for European play, 2) the fact that he has at one time or another beaten almost every able...
...seemed to them exceedingly occult reasons, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia abruptly took action which had the effect of barring Germans from being granted New York City licenses as masseurs, locksmiths, itinerant musicians, operators of newsstands, keepers of fruit or soda water booths, bootblacks on outdoor stands, operators of employment agencies, ping- pong galleries, pool and billiard parlors, shooting galleries or bathing establishments, public porters, dirt-cart drivers, wardrobe concessionaires, charity entertainment managers, hand-organ grinders and operators of junk shops, junk carts or junk boats...
...library is one of the most complete, with close to ten thousand volumes, in all fields. Concentrators in English literature, History and Economics are especially fortunate in the wide selection of books at their disposal. There are, also, for the use of House members a pool table, a ping pong table and a music room, with a small but growing library of records. The grill situated in the basement is open from noon to midnight, and serves anything from a glass of milk to a full course dinner, the charge for which goes on the term-bills...
This clapper makes a very weak "ping" sound, and to add to the general disappointment resulting from the these of the deeper bass, no measures have been reported to prevent similar thefts happening again in the future...