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...foregone conclusion. Largest score in international history, 14 to 9,* hung on the hooks when Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock Sr., matriarch of U. S. polo (almost run down by an importunate newsreel truck), watched Mrs. Charles H. Tremayne, wife of the non-playing English captain, hand back the cup to stalwart Thomas Hitchcock...
Last week in the mild continuous fete that constitutes summer life on Long Island, one activity gained increasing importance. Many incidents bespoke it. A stalwart, bronzed gentleman arrived in Manhattan on the Mauretania-Gerald Balding, contender for No. 2 on the English international polo team. He was a little ahead of his teammates, but they were starting too. Their 67 ponies were on the way over on the S. S. Minnetonka. Another foreign team, an extraordinary one made up of four brothers Ashton from Australia-Philip, Geoffrey, James, Robert-all about the same size, closely resembling each other, ranked...
This year stalwart Jerusalem Jews collected bludgeons, rocks and in a few cases firearms, to carry under their talithim (praying shawls) as they went at sundown to begin the Fast of Ab. Edward Keith-Roach, British district commissioner of Jerusalem, knew this was going on. He ordered admonishing posters prepared and had them fixed to walls. The work was done on Thursday so as not to offend Moslems by having Moslem employes work on Friday, their Sabbath, or by having Jews work on Saturday, their sabbath. His own sabbath, Sunday, was nerve-wracking...
Florence Farley was a bright but not too stalwart little girl, only daughter of a mill superintendent in a small New England town. To give her something to do and keep her outdoors, her father painted, a target on the garage door, showed Florence how to practice hitting a tennis ball at it. She soon became so expert that when she got a chance to play on a real court against a live opponent she aquitted herself like an embryo champion. When her club sent her to the national junior championships (all expenses paid) she earned her keep by bringing...
...Department of Justice's reorganization of Prohibition Enforcement, which it took over this month from the Treasury (TIME, July 7), first notable change was at the biggest, Wettest metropolis in the land. For Major Maurice Campbell, Prohibition Administrator of New York City, was substituted a stalwart, black-mustachioed Kentuckian, Andrew McCampbell, 57, personal believer in Prohibition, a Dry law enforcer of long experience in the Midwest and on the Canadian border...