Word: thion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...placements have the brilliance, the finality of condescending epigrams. With such epigrams he might perhaps have punctured the crude bombast of Wilmer Allison's speedy serve last week, had he not flown over to Paris for Rene Lacoste's wedding to the French golf champion, Mile Simone Thion de la Chaume. When he returned to the centre court at Wimbledon, Cochet argued like a tired attorney. He won the first two games, but after that the debonair and biting edge of his game disappeared. Allison, stubborn, strong, insistent, won the first set 6-4 and then the second...
Married. René Lacoste, holder at various times of U. S., British and French tennis championships, expert golfer; to Simone Thion de la Chaume, champion French woman golfer, onetime holder of the British women's golf championship, expert tennis player, daughter of the Director & General Manager of the Bank of Indo-China; at Paris; after a courtship long prolonged by the groom's weak lungs...
...Mlle Simone Thion de la Chaume: the women's golf championship of France (fifth time), beating Mlle Diana Esmond in the finals at St. Germain, 5 & 4. ¶The Yale polo team: the intercollegiate championship, beating Princeton u to c in the finals, at Red Bank, N. J. ¶Stocky, black-haired Julius Seligson of Lehigh: the Eastern intercollegiate tennis championship, beating Clifford Sutter of Tulane in the finals in Brooklyn...