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...Melbourne last week Britain's Fred Perry, currently the world's No. 1 tennist, lost to Jack Crawford in the final of the Australian championship, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. Said Perry, after the match: "This may be the last time Crawford and I will meet." Newshawks were quick to sense the implication: when Tilden's tour starts next year, Perry may be star attraction...
...exhibitions, grossed $243,000 from 352,412 customers. But no theatrical producer puts on the same thing year after year. Casting about for a new act to liven up his show, Promoter O'Brien selected the great doubles team of George Lott and Lester Stoefen. Three weeks ago Tennist Lott capitulated to Mr. O'Brien's cash proposal. Last week Tennist Stoefen, who with Lott scored the only U. S. point against Britain in the Davis Cup challenge round at Wimbledon last August, decided to turn his pastime into a profession...
Married. Charlotte Kelsey Dorrance, daughter of Campbell Soup Co.'s late, learned Founder-President Dr. John Thompson Dorrance, who left some $115,000,000 in trust to his widow and five children; and William Coxe Wright, tennist; in Radnor...
...Singles at Forest Hills, Perry met Jack Crawford who held the Australian, French and All-England titles and was expected to add the U. S. title. When Crawford lost that match and when Ellsworth Vines turned professional shortly afterward, Perry became indisputably the best amateur tennist in the world. Since then he has beaten Crawford five times. After defeating him in the Wimbledon final this year, he put the finishing touches on his record by beating both Sidney Wood and Frank Shields in the singles match of the Davis Cup challenge round (TIME, Aug. 6). On the tennis court, Perry...
...this monster sped up a half-mile of telephone wire into the ears of a pretty, yellow-haired young woman named Gloria Hollister, who recorded the Beebe babblings in her fleet shorthand. Equipped with the conventional headphones and mouthpiece of a switchboard girl but dressed like a champion tennist, Miss Hollister resembled a cinemactress playing a part more than the earnest young scientist...