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...next-to-worst thing for the Administration still impended?the thing Speaker Longworth had feared and predicted: an upbuilding of Democratic strength to the point???204 seats?where the 15 insurgent Republicans of the House would possess a balance-of-power like that of their insurgent brethren in the Senate...
...match was hotly exciting. For five sets, less one point???a point that was never played?Berkeley Bell, agile, 125-lb. player from Dallas, Tex. had run after the hard forehand drives of Francis Townsend Hunter, longtime Davis cupman, No. 2 ranking player. Hunter lost the first set, but took the next two. Bell was coming up to the net in the fourth?hazardous tactics against anyone so accurate as Hunter?and even in the backcourt his legs pumped so fast that he made gets that seemed impossible. For such short legs, the pace was hard, and while Hunter...
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...players who fill the uniforms may claim residence at some far-distant point???fans care not whence the home team is recruited, so long as it wins...
...BITTERN POINT???Virginia Macfadyen-A. & C. Boni ($2). We have but two fitful glimpses of the piratical, tongueless Turk of these pages. Both occur in a swamper's hut in the 18th Century Carolinas. We infer that he is shy a finger on his strangling hand, that his dagger has a permanent wave and that his ministrations upon the persons of five young women derive from Jack the Ripper. We infer, that is all. Yet that is ample to earn this Turk several graduate and honorary degrees in murdery. From the barest hints he becomes a lurking presence whose actuality...