Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tuesday. Paired with C. F. [C. F. Aeschleman, Swiss star], I won another match in the Nice mixed doubles. He is the best kind of partner because he is so modest. I think he is a little afraid of me. Whenever there is any doubt about a ball, he lets me take it, but he is always there when I need him. Critics who saw us play today (we defeated Mile. Neveu and Capt. Christie in two love sets, and then Miss Evelyn Woods and Mr. Caulfield, 6-0, 6-1) said that they thought we would give Suzanne...
...bier as she lay in state at Los Angeles. A crowd of 10,000 broke up the funeral when it was finally held, milled about furiously while two cordons of police vainly attempted to keep them back, burst through the police guard, knocked Bert Lytell, one of the cinema-star pallbearers, against a wheel of the hearse, sent the other pallbearers fleeing for safety. This stampede apparently resulted from the desire of numerous women to touch the silver casket of "the girl who was too beautiful to live." Five women fainted, were carried into the funeral parlors to be revived...
Married. Miss Kathleen McKane, unquestionably Britain's foremost woman tennis player, to L. A. Godfree, noted British Davis Cup star; at Kimberley, while touring South Africa with a British tennis team of which Mr. Godfree is captain...
...Miller, and once been defeated by him; Bowman, the erstwhile Syracuse flash; Hussey, the Boston College Freshman who has been defeated twice by Miller in the past week, but who has gained international fame by his speedy spurts; perhaps Murchison, most brilliant performer among indoor sprinters; Leconey, former Olympic star, now of the Meadowbrook Club; and Mittlesdorf of Colby...
Burns, starting at guard for the Freshmen, was the out-standing star of the Andover five last year, and was largely instrumental in turning the tables on 1928 after the latter had obtained an early lead...