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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...centre court at Roland Garros was entirely rebuilt this year, with a red clay surface even slower than before. This tended to lessen the celebrated speed of the No. 1 U. S. singles player. Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr. Combined with the fact that the U. S. team had not been impressive in the final round against Germany, it helped give France some of the confidence it had lost when Rene La Coste announced that he was too sick to play. French newspapers generously warned Vines not to eat pork and cucumber the day before he played Henri Cochet...
Vines, more assured than ever since winning the Wimbledon championship last month, played dazzling tennis for two sets. Prenn got three games in each. Tennis critics, who expect a player with a two-set lead to loaf a little but not let down entirely, were baffled by the third set. Vines dawdled about the court with a pleasant grin while Prenn won six games in a row. When Vines, still loafing, lost the first three games in the third set, it looked to the crowd as though Prenn, the most tenacious tennist in Europe, was going to do the impossible...
...dear friend Francis Hunter and William Johnston. Even supposing that Cochet was as good as ever, of which no body who saw him lose in Wimbledon's second round could be quite sure, the rest of the team was almost certainly weaker this year. Captain and Reserve Singles Player René Lacoste, who has been trying to make a comeback this year, caught tonsilitis last week, persuaded jolly Jean Borotra to take his place. Borotra still insisted he was not good enough; there was a chance that young Christian Boussus might play one match at least. That left the doubles...
...rumor was started that he may become the "tsar" which the western U. S. roads are seeking. Fred Wesley Sargent, president of Chicago & North Western, confirmed the fact that Sir Henry's name was being considered. His long railroad experience began in the U. S. A potent football player at University of Pennsylvania in 1893, Indiana-born Sir Henry coached the Vanderbilt University team at $100 a week for his first job, then became a draftsman for Pennsylvania Railroad at $50 a month. He caught the attention of bush-bearded Leonor Fresnel Loree, then general manager of the road...
...bulwarking made it an appropriate party last year to a merger with Brown Bros. & Co., forming Brown Bros. Harriman & Co. Another Harriman venture is Harriman & Co., a small firm doing a lucrative business in commercial paper. Virile Son Harriman enjoys sport as well as work, is an expert polo player with a 4-goal handicap. In business his luck has been to tackle situations at bad moments. He has always had a sentimental attachment for Union Pacific, from which by hard work, spectacular plunging and foresight his father hammered fame & fortune. He was a U. P. director while at Yale...