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When the Madrid embassy was officially abandoned by the U. S. last Thanksgiving, no provision was made for feeding the remaining Americans. This job fell naturally to Captain Cannaday, who was acclaimed sutler by the beleaguered refugees. First measure of Farmer Cannaday was to accept a loan of eight full-uddered Hereford cows from a dairyman whose farm lay in the path of Generalissimo Franco's advancing legionnaires. Quartered in the embassy garage and pastured on its expansive lawn, the cows produced enough milk to supply the embassy's needs, plus some for bartering purposes with the otherwise...
...Esteban Reyes, a half-Indian nicknamed "Pajaro" because he swoops about the court like a small dark bird, was particularly eager to do well because he was playing on the courts of the Chapultepec Sports Club where he used to chase balls. But fair-haired young Clifford Sutler of New Orleans, playing lazily, beat him 6-1, 6-0, 6-1. The only satisfaction the crowd got the first day was the one set that small, slight Dr. Ricardo Tapia-who has been Mexican singles champion for the last five years, whose sister Maria is Mexico's woman champion...
...Gregory Mangin, of Newark, N. J., who has never won an important tournament outdoors: his second consecutive U. S. Indoor Tennis Championship against a crack field including Clifford Sutler, Francis. Shields, George Lott, Berkeley Bell; 6-1. 6-3, 2-6, 3-6, 6-2, in the final against Sutter; in Manhattan. ¶ Glenn Cunningham of Kansas: a mile race in the Knights of Columbus Games, with Glen Dawson of Tulsa second, Carl Coan of Penn third and Gene Venzke of Penn, who set the world's record of 4:10 a year ago and has hitherto been Cunningham...
...wanted to make Sutler's Gold. . They preached box-office to me ... Nice elderly ladies said Mrs. Sutter should be pictured as a nicer character. . . . And the Daughters of Something-or-Other got interested and raised a row. ... A Major Pease and his Blue Shirts said I was a 'Red Dog.' . . . And the producers complained that I didn't seem to get sex appeal. . . . And the race question entered into my difficulties, too, and I don't mean the Negro race...
...Hills. Second, three new players, younger than the "younger players" and with normal personal differentiation, made their appearance. These were Frank Shields, im- mensely tall, convivial and handsome, Roxbury graduate; Sidney Wood, a yellow-haired, wiry, California youth, with a delicate physique but strong wrists and forearms; and Clifford Sutler, a cherub-faced collegian from New Orleans, with self-consciously graceful but effective ground strokes...