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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Dunbar Wright Bostwick, Yale polo and hockey player, brother of Gentleman Jockey George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick (TIME, June 27); and Electra Webb, great-granddaughter of Commodore Vanderbilt and of James Watson Webb; at Garden City...
Prices: $1.50 top ($3 for the final concert). A 175-piece orchestra, each player getting $20 (at previous benefits the fee has been $15). All other services, including management, donated by NBC. A Bach concerto for three pianos executed at one & the same time by Harold Bauer, Ernest Hutcheson, Josef Lhevinne, Ernest Schelling (see p. 32) and two others. Concertos played by Fritz Kreisler and Sergei Rachmaninoff, brought together for the first time at one & the same concert. An all-Tchaikovsky program, with Ossip Gabrilowitsch playing the piano concerto...
...Haverford, Pa., the best player of the best college tennis team in the U. S. had a fine chance to win the U. S. Intercollegiate championship. He, Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, No. 1 on the North Carolina team which this year and last won 45 matches in a row against Yale, Harvard, Navy, Army, N. Y. U., et al, played the defending champion, Keith Gledhill ot Stanford, in the semifinal. For two sets Grant kept Gledhill away from the net by passing him every time he tried to come up He let Gledhill win the third set but he was trying...
...Chicago, 16-year-old Frank Parker of Milwaukee played George Lott Jr., second-ranking player in the U. S., in the third round of the Western championship. Parker playing in short trousers and barelegged, won 6-3, 2-6, 6-4, 3~6 6-3. . In the semi-finals he beat Tilden's onetime protege Junior Coen 6-4, 6-1 5-7,6-2. In the final his opponent was huge (6 11 6 in.) Lester Stoeffen of Los Angeles. Parker...
Died. John George Milburn Jr., 52, retired member of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn, Manhattan law firm; brother of Polo Player Devereux Milburn; suddenly of an internal hemorrhage; in Manhattan...