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Died. Tu Yueh-sen, 64, onetime fruit vendor who became the underworld boss of Shanghai, controlled the city's waterfront trade unions, ricksha boys and the Red Gate and Blue Societies (protection racket); after long illness; in Hong Kong. In 1927, when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek split with the Communists, Tu broke up the powerful Communist-bossed General Labor Union, managed to keep Shanghai from falling to the Reds. In return, Chiang appointed him head of the Anti-Opium League, a position which gave him legal control of the country's thriving drug trade, in which he already...
...shots often left McGregor flatfooted. Savitt won in straight sets, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4-the shortest final (61 min.) in memory. Only after the final point, in which McGregor sprawled helplessly after a whipping backhand down the line, did Savitt yank the emotional safety valve. Throwing his racket high in the air, he exploded in a fierce yell of triumph...
...Wimbledon last week, it was beginning to look like the year of the crocodile. Germany's Gottfried von Cramm, no crocodile but still a masterly all-court player at 42, could even now take the starch out of youngsters who could hardly lift a racket in the days when Von Cramm was a Wimbledon finalist three years running...
...Jacques Brugnon) who dominated international tennis 1924-29, was the grandfather of all crocodiles. Recalling one match against Lacoste, Bill Tilden remarked: "The monotonous regularity with which that unsmiling, drab, almost dull man returned the best I could hit ... often filled [me] with a wild desire to throw my racket...
...Libido. Hatterr decides to get into the swami racket himself. But just as he and his partner are about to put on their big show for the gullible, he learns what his own billing is to be: that of a saintly eunuch who has surgically rendered "his id and libido null and void." Much attached to his id and libido, Hatterr scoots off into the brush...