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...star Señorita Lilli de Alvarez. His Majesty did not cheer, but he watched, animated. She, warmly beautiful, vivacious, and compellingly feminine, came up, last week, in the women's singles finals against Miss Helen Wills. The contrast was between darting flames and scintillating ice. Serious, studious, book-writing, sketch-drawing Helen Wills seemed, in her stiff, skeletonized cap merely efficient. Señorita de Alvarez came out onto the court in .a brilliant red sweater and turban, took off the sweater, changed the scarlet turban to one of bottle green. If she won the match the world...
Pilot Van Orman, 33, lean, studious, is such a wise meteorologist that his fellow employes at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. consult him upon whether or not to go fishing. He won the Bennett Trophy last year, is perhaps the ablest of U. S. balloonists...
...Veteran John H. Mayes was taught photo-engraving at the Veterans' Bureau. Studious, quick-learning, he soon was able to start a photo-engraving business of his own, in Murphysboro, 111. On pieces of specially prepared paper, seven and one-eighth inches long, three and one-eighth inches wide, he made minutely detailed engravings, including the arresting words: "This certificate is a legal tender in the amount thereof in payment of all debts and dues public and private. Acts of March 14, 1900, as amended...
...overt adoration, especially if he has won the heart of his audience only recently. So it was last week in Carnegie Hall, at the end of Guest Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler's third season with the New York Philharmonic. In 1925 he first came as guest conductor, a studious young man from Berlin and Vienna who had pleased without enchanting. Last year he was a serious, efficient workman, but sometimes also an experimenter, a personality to the few. This winter he permitted his private feelings more rein and the audience knew...
...killed or wounded sometime during their career by the traffic in the Square, especially during the slippery season. Statistics on the subject are not available; but it is safe to assume that even the laziest student enters the Yard once a day, and that even the most studious of those having rooms there are obliged to go out once a day in search of food. That the mortality is so low is surprising, especially when one considers that many motorists, particularly truck-drivers, appear to regard college students as fair game...