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Lesser men of the year seemed small indeed beside the Führer. Undoubted Crook of the Year was the late Frank Donald Coster (né Musica), with Richard Whitney, now in Sing Sing Prison, as runner-up. Sportsman of the Year was Tennist Donald Budge, champion of the U. S., England, France, Australia. Aviator of the Year was 33-year-old Howard Robard Hughes, diffident millionaire, who flew a sober, precise, foolproof course 14,716 miles round the top of the world in three days, 19 hours, eight minutes...
Sued for divorce was Frederick John Perry, 29, famed British tennist, by his cinemactress wife, 31-year-old Helen Vinson (real name: Helen Rulfs Vickerman Perry). Her complaints: he not only used rough language but forced her to attend his tennis matches...
...Judges of the $250,000 Movie Quiz Contest, announced last week: New York's Representative Bruce Barton, Boy Scout Leader James E. West, Tennist Helen Wills Moody, Author Hendrik Willem van Loon, Mrs. Ogden Reid, vice president of the New York Herald Tribune...
William J. Bingham '16, director of Athletics, journeyed to New York a couple of days age to address the Herald-Tribune Forum on "Keeping the Mind Clean. Through Sport." Tennist Holen Wills and slugger Lou Gehrig were near him, but right beside him was a vacant chair...
William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, has accepted an invitation to speak at the Herald-Tribune forum with such other sport limelighters as baseball star Lou Gehrig, tennist Helen Wills Moody, and Dwight F. Davis '00, donator of the Davis Cup, it was revealed yesterday...