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...Paris, one Renée Valette, 18, leaped from the Eiffel Tower to die, as many another had done successfully. After twirling down 35 feet, her skirt caught on a projection, where she dangled until workmen, scolding, hauled her to security...
Lacoste v. Tilden. The finals . . . RenÉ Lacoste, a leading, eellike man with blue-black hair, with dark circles under his eyes . . . Tilden, long arms and long legs covering the court like a madcap daddylonglegs . . . both confident . . . both using every weapon of the game, tantalizing chop-strokes, lobs, uncanny placements, cannonballs . . . Lacoste injuring a leg trying to recover a Tilden cannonball . . . Tilden being called three times for foot faults by Allan Muhr, umpire from the U. S. . . . Tilden arguing with Muhr...
...LaSalle. (Named after René Robert Cavelier Sieur de la Salle who explored savage North America as did that other French explorer-Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, founder of Detroit...
Comparatively "poor men" who have appeared on TIME's cover: Anton Lang, John L. Lewis, Pope Pius XI, Alfred E. Smith, Paul von Hindenburg, Andrew Volstead, Doctor Ray Lyman Wilbur, Admiral Togo, René Fonck, Helen Wills, Joseph Conrad, Carrie Chapman Catt, Roy Chapman Andrews, Eugene O'Neill, John Joseph Pershing, Abd-el-Krim, Ramsay MacDonald and Leon Trotzky...
...cogitations and conferences came, by easy mental association, the name of René Robert Cavelier Sieur de LaSalle. The Cadillac, General Motors' pride, had been named for Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, who in the 18th Century established Detroit. He was King Louis XIV's Governor of Louisiana Territory, but the man who had explored and named that territory a few years before was the intrepid, swashbuckling Sieur de LaSalle. In his name were connotations of reverence, dash, finesse. Therefore the new General Motors car is called the LaSalle...