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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago in the finals of the Metropolitan Grass Court Championship in Brooklyn, Ellsworth Vines, 18, unknown, beat Francis T. Hunter, second ranking U. S. player. Entering last week the annual invitation tournament of the Sea Bright, N. J. Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club ?a tournament which has become regarded as a more important sign-pointer for the national than any other mid-season event ? Ellsworth Vines was no longer unknown. People had learned about him ? that his father owns a chain of Pacific Coast meat stores, that he began playing when he was six and was later...
Interlachen is not a particularly long course (6,672 yd.) but it is perilously trapped. The narrow fairways put a tremendous premium on straight driving. The thick-matted rough seldom fails to cost a player a stroke whenever he strays into it. The greens of Stolon Bent are smooth but tricky to putt...
Married. René Lacoste, holder at various times of U. S., British and French tennis championships, expert golfer; to Simone Thion de la Chaume, champion French woman golfer, onetime holder of the British women's golf championship, expert tennis player, daughter of the Director & General Manager of the Bank of Indo-China; at Paris; after a courtship long prolonged by the groom's weak lungs...
...Author. Archibald MacLeish, 38, short, quizzical, Scotch-looking, was born in Glencoe, Ill. He was voted Most Brilliant man in his Yale class ('15). He was both football player and chairman of the Literary Magazine, class poet and captain of water polo. He rose in the Massachusetts bar, but some years ago renounced the law for poetry, which he writes intermittently on his farm in Conway, Mass. FORTUNE employs him on its editorial staff. He has lived much in Europe, is a great friend of Poet Stephen Vincent Benét (John Brown's Body), and Ernest Hemingway. But, vigorous, busy...
...this summer in the employ of a real business (American Radiator Co.) to see such things as budgeting and accounting in practical operation. Son Fernando, graduate of the University of Brazil, spent his college vacations mostly in Europe, pleasure bent. At home he is rated an excellent horseman, tennis player, yachtsman, ladies...