Word: sleepers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Women. At Forest Hills, L. I. last week the U. S. women's singles championship went not to a dark horse but to what the horse world calls a sleeper, i.e., one whose victory comes as a great surprise to all save the very sophisticated. Last year's Champion Alice Marble, who was scheduled to meet Poland's hefty Jadwiga ("Jaja") Jedrzejowska in the final, was instead put out in the quarter-finals by Dorothy May Bundy. Chubby Miss Bundy, who resembles her famed tennis-playing mother May Sutton (U. S. champion 1904, and Wimbledon champion...
...Santa Fe provides "courier-nurses" on the Scout (Chicago, Kansas City, California), a coach and tourist sleeper, economy train designed to compete with busses. Sociability is subordinated to taking care of the old, the ill, youngsters traveling alone, helping mothers with infants. But in order that the Santa Fe's hostesses shall be interesting conversationalists, at least about the scenery, their training includes trips through scenic parts of the Southwest...
John P.Lee; George F. Lowman; Wiley E. Mayne; Donald McC. McKellar, Jr.; John S. Mechem; George von L. Meyer, III; Charles L. Moore; Arthur Oakes, III; George F. Roberts; John A. Roosevelt; Renouf Russell; David W. Shean, Jr.; Carl Shirley; Donald C. Sleeper; John B. Stevens; Hobert C. Stuart; Robert Sullivan; John N. Thorne, Jr.; George F. Tyler, Jr.; Caspar W. Weinberger; Adoniram J. Wells, Jr.; Robert T. Whitman; Edward F. Whitney; and Crocker Wight...
Wiley E. Mayne, Donald M. McKellar, Jr., George vonL. Meyer, 3rd, Charles L. Moore, Arthur Oakes, 3rd, George F. Roberts, John A. Roosevelt, Renouf Russell, David W. Shean, Jr., Carl Shirley, Donald C. Sleeper, John B. Stevens...
Thomas H. Bilodeau '37 does a ballet specialty, "Ballet des Flours" in a winged butterfly costume. Donald C. Sleeper '38 in the character of Suzy Murphy, girl about town, does a Bowery number. John Benbow, Jr. '37, as Chuckle, and Harry E. Gibby, Jr. '38, as Aussie, sing "Breakfast Nook" in their portrayal of a young married couple...