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Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin, Davis Cup tennist turned Buchmanite, was one of 15 Moral Rearmorers who lost appeals from 1-A classifications in Manhattan. They had argued that their moral rearming was more important to the war than military service...
...morale-engineers one was Norwegian, one a Dane, one a Canadian, the rest Englishmen out of reach of their own nation's draft laws. Among them: Tennist Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin. Last summer they were classified 1-A. They were facing induction in November when Brigadier General Ames T. Brown, New York Selective Service director, ordered the cases reopened after an MRA leader approached him with an introduction from Representative James W. Wadsworth of New York, co-author of Selective Service...
Twice she trounced 22-year-old Pauline Betz, second-ranking woman tennist. In the Longwood Invitation tournament this week she humbled San Francisco's fourth-ranking Margaret Osborne the second time. At Maidstone, she wore sixth-ranking Helen Bernhard ragged...
...intimate adviser of Edward VII and George V; in Edinburgh. He was Lord President of the Court of Session (the Scottish Supreme Court), a Lord of Appeal in the House of Lords. Besides, he claimed to have been the first Cambridge undergraduate to ride a bicycle, was an expert tennist, cricketer and fencer, remarried at 73, and celebrated his 90th birthday by throwing a cocktail party...
Baron Gottfried von Cramm, graceful tennist, onetime jail bird (on a morals charge) has returned to Berlin from the eastern front and resumed his tennis...