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Imagine the great Election night when it is discovered that the 48 states are deadlocked in a sort of Hayes-Tilden stalemate. It is the 49th State of the Union which holds the decisive balance. How feverish the crowds in Times Square grow as the slow returns pour in! "Seven districts in Hammersmith give Wallace a plurality of 54," with James A. Garfield and Aaron Burr trailing badly. Then the grand finale in Trafalgar Square, with Landseer's lions magically changed to eagles at the touch of Henry's wand, and all the fountains playing pure Coca-Cola...
...caption over the item concerning William Tatem Tilden II [TIME, Jan. 27] read "Fault!" Would it not have been more appropriately "Fault...
Into a Los Angeles courtroom last week shuffled gangling, 53-year-old William Tatem Tilden II, once the world's greatest tennis player. His fault: homosexuality (he had been caught in a parked car with a 14-year-old ball boy from the Los Angeles Tennis Club...
Abject and hoping for clemency, Tilden (technically charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor) listened to the castigation by Superior Court Judge A. A. Scott: "You have been an idol to thousands of youngsters and admired by millions of adults throughout the world." Murmured Big Bill: "I'm very sorry...
...start a nine months' jail sentence and five years' probation, during which he must "never be in the company of either male or female juveniles unaccompanied by their parents." His friends were not surprised, just saddened. Said New York Daily News Sports Editor Jimmy Powers: "The Tilden case is a tragic one. Bill is not a criminal...