Word: said
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...setup lobs, passed him at the net, caught him flustered and flatfooted with service aces, finished him off in straight sets, 6-4, 6-2, 6-4. Bobby won the title, but the boy they talked about on the way home was Welby. "Next year," they said. In the women's singles, Alice Marble breezed through with scarcely a challenge, stood off a grim Helen Jacobs in the final, to the enjoyment of practically everybody but leathery oldster Molla Mallory, who said Alice would never be a tennis player until she learns to put some spin on her forehand...
...some queer fangles in fighting. For the Baer fight, for example, he trained at the yoga roost of Dr. Pierre Bernard, the Omnipotent Oom of the Sunday supplements. Half an hour before the fight his handlers came into his dressing room, found him standing on his head-relaxing, he said. Thus relaxed, he handed Max quite a pasting. But Tony Galento, the Orange, N. J., barman, is most relaxed with a bung-starter in his hairy paw. For a week before last week's fight he smoked a dozen big black cheroots a day, drank two or three beers...
When it was over they carried Lou to a hospital with a good start on his first cauliflower ear. Tony went back to his New Jersey barroom, with his puffy eyes on Detroit and a great bully-boy future. Said he: "I'll knock out dat bum Louis in two rounds...
...hobnobbed with Sir Basil Zaharoff, Lord Rothermere and the King of Sweden at Monte Carlo, built an $8,000,000 chateau on Riverside Drive, bought a 1,000-acre estate at Loretto, Pa., his birthplace. In the depth of Depression he never lost his faith in big business. Said he: "I am an optimist by nature. Something is bound to happen." But for the first World War's great profiteer and patriot, World War II came 18 days too late...
...such oldtime airmen as Octave Chanute and Glenn Curtiss, waded ear-deep into aviation. In 1922, heartened by the success of his crude "Batwing," he drafted plans for the first all-metal commercial plane. To some 100 U. S. industrialists went Inventor Stout, asked them for $1,000 each. Said he: "You may never get your money back, but you'll have $1,000 worth...