Word: tennist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Francis X. Shields, 29, Manhattan laundryman, onetime No. 1 U. S. tennist; and Donna Marina Torlonia, younger daughter of U. S. Hardware Heiress Elsie Moore Torlonia and sister of the Prince of Civitella Cesi, who is married to the Infanta Beatrix, daughter of Alfonso XIII; in North Conway, N. H. Fortnight before, Shields was divorced by Socialite Rebecca Tenney Shields...
Other Ministries: Finance, Senator Yves Boutillier, who had been adviser to the aging Joseph Caillaux; Justice, Raphael Alibert; Youth & Family, Jean Ybarnégaray, a Basque Rightist Deputy, who named his fellow Basque, Tennist Jean Borotra, director of amateur sports; Agriculture, Agriculturist Pierre Caziot; Communications, Corsican Deputy François Piétri; Colonies, Martinique-born Senator Henri Lémery; Public Instruction, Senator Emile Mireaux, Industrial Production & Labor, onetime Popular Frontist Réné Belin. Though none of these men was distinguished for love of The Republic, they had a case to make...
Watching hard-hitting, ex-Army Mule Shoer Lew Jenkins, world's lightweight boxing champion, hammer sparring partners around the ring, No. 1 Professional Tennist J. Donald Budge, noted for his own smashing attack, commented: "That's a snappy forehand drive Jenkins...
...color of the apples on his dad's farm, and he said: "Alice Marble should have got it." But the 600 exathletes, sportswriters and promoters polled by the A. A. U. liked Joe best, gave second place to Charles ("Chuck") Fenske, Wisconsin miler, and third place to Tennist Marble. Their reasons for picking...