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When Ling-Temco-Vought President Clyde Skeen appeared in Wilson & Co.'s Chicago executive suite last December, Wilson President Roscoe G. Haynie mused: "I know he didn't come up here to price a set of golf clubs." Acting as emissary for Ling-Temco Headman James Joseph Ling, who controls 16.6% of the Dallas-based company, Skeen announced that L-T-V thought Wilson & Co. a good investment, planned to offer tenders for one-third of its stock...
Benefactor No. 2 was Dick Skeen, one of the shrewdest teaching pros in the business. For $25 down and $5 a month, he began teaching young Jake how to swing a tennis racket. Each day, the youngster spent three hours on trolley cars, traveling the 18 miles between his home and Skeen's Beverly Hills court. Gradually his strokes took on a Skeen sheen. At 15, Jake easily beat Alice Marble, who was then women's singles champion...
...Admiral. > Tennist Fred Perry, onetime British Davis Cupper now teaching tennis in the U.S.: an invitation Professional Round Robin Tennis championship (10% of receipts for British War Relief); defeating creaking, 48-year-old Bill Tilden (4-6, 0-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-2), up-&-coming Dick Skeen of Hollywood (6-1, 3-6, 6-0, 6-3) and jaded Don Budge (6-4, 6-2, 6-3); at the West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, N.Y. For Bridegroom Budge, practically invincible during two years of professional barnstorming, it was the second defeat in two weeks. On closing...
...been my privelidge to meet Judge Skeen and as I lived in Wise County for several years I know a good many of its inhabitants and have found most of them to be well bred and cultured people and if a correction of this impression is made by TIME I am sure the Wise Countians will appreciate a curteous gesture from what I consider the nation's leading current topics magazine...
Last week Judge H. A. W. Skeen denied Edith Maxwell a new trial, granted a 60-day suspension of sentence to permit filing an appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals...