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...only French team that ever won the Davis Cup (1927, with Jean Borotra, Henri Cochet and Jacques Brugnon as fellow team members). Lacoste played so fiercely that sportswriters dubbed him le Crocodile. When he left the tournament circuit in 1929, he remembered the name. Competitors like Big Bill Tilden had worn starched long-sleeved men's shirts on the courts, but Lacoste was so uncomfortable in them that he had a British haberdasher make him cotton polo shirts with collars attached. When other tennis players adopted the shirt, La coste himself went into business making sports shirts and took...
Ironically, what attracts the tourists is less the legend than the extravagant display. The name of Marion Davies, the good-natured ex-chorine who played hostess at San Simeon to a list of greats that included Winston Churchill, Calvin Coolidge, Bill Tilden and Garbo, is rarely mentioned. Hearst's private study, the seat from which he directed his empire, and the radio shack equipped with a radio-control tower and a complete switchboard through which he transmitted his orders, attract only passing interest. What delights the curiosity seekers are the same things that enthralled the Chief...
Princeton also has a fine secondary with Tilden Reeder, Bill Pape, and Russ Todd leading...
...which the convention would be stampeded into rewarding him with the presidential nomination. Just how Custer expected to achieve this in so short a time is left unexplained. Actually, his death was not reported to the nation until July 5. By that time, the Democrats had nominated Samuel J. Tilden, who met a different sort of disaster. Although he won a majority of the popular vote, 4,284,020 to 4,036,572, he lost the presidency to Rutherford B. Hayes by one electoral vote...
Complaints of Controls. What is bothering the businessmen? Answers President Tilden Cummings of Chicago's Continental Illinois National Bank: "There's too much arm-twisting, too many controls, too little effort to curb domestic spending, and too many things being done all at once...