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Divorced. Beauteous Eileen Bennett Fearnley Whittingstall, onetime No. 1 British tennist; by Painter Edmund Owen Fearnley Whittingstall; in London. Charges: misconduct with Marcus March, trainer of Windsor Lad, 1934 Derby winner...
Fortnight ago Mr. Van Ryn, now unranked in U. S. men's singles, and Mrs. Van Ryn, fifth ranking female tennist, deserted their cosy home outside Philadelphia and their fox terrier named "Wimby," junketed to Manhattan for the National Indoor Championships. "Midge" Van Ryn was well prepared for action. All winter she had practiced on the indoor courts of Socialite George D. Widener and Banker Fitz Eugene Dixon, onetime Davis Cup captain, who employs her husband...
...Eleonora Sears was chosen by Tennist May Sutton as the most attractive and best dressed woman in the U. S. Just before she sailed for England last month, she was guest of honor at a Boston banquet, hailed as U. S. Sportswoman No. 1. Currently Sportswoman Sears is interested in squash racquets, walking, tennis and riding, though she no longer rides in steeplechases on her favorite horse Barney...
Died. Frederick Shander Moody, 70, San Francisco businessman, father-in-law of Tennist Helen Wills Moody, uncle of Mrs. Herbert Hoover Jr.; in San Francisco
...immediate intention of retiring, makes work his hobby, was this year elected a director of the Associated Press to fill the vacancy left by the death of Adolph Ochs. A golfer, tennist, yachtsman and air traveler in his spare time, Publisher Gannett showed he was not without dash when, in 1931, he dived off his yacht Widgeon to rescue Mrs. Karl Bickel, wife of the then president of United Press...