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Occasionally someone spoke a few reasonable words. Said Gladys Tilden, a Westwood apartment operator: "The idea of withdrawing housing is scandalous and idiotic. They [the Apartment Association] are trying to break the OPA but they're too stupid to see that would only make matters worse. Increased operating costs haven't hurt like inflation would...
...singles match with the veteran English pro, R.A.F. Squadron Leader Dan Maskell. The team score: U.S. 4, Empire 1 ¶In overheated Manhattan, a pair of ancient iron men had their day in the quarter-finals of the U.S. pro championships. In 88° heat, 52-year-old Bill Tilden battled 55-year-old Karel Kozeluh through five sets. After two and a quarter hours of chasing elusive drop shots, Big Bill won the match and brushed off the skeptics: "Well, you saw ... I finished standing up, didn't I?" (Next day he got the worst drubbing...
TIME (Nov. 6), referring to possible delay in knowledge of election results, said: "The drama of such a situation would have only two parallels in the last 75 years," and recites them-the second Wilson election in 1916 and the Hayes-Tilden contest...
...whole month, almost hoped for a landslide either way. The drama of such a situation would have only two parallels in the last 75 years-the night of Nov. 7, 1916, when Charles Evans Hughes went to bed a President-elect, and awoke to defeat; and the Hayes-Tilden election of 1876, which was not settled until the House of Representatives decided in favor of Hayes on March 2, 1877, 115 days after the election...
...summer, on their farm at Ringwood, N.J., they built a 250-foot slide from the top of the orchard across the lawn, greased the slide with beeswax, and sailed down it "at great speed and with wild howls of glee." Ambassador Whitelaw Reid and Presidential Candidate Samuel J. Tilden tried it once when "both of them [were] rather well along in years." Says Author Hewitt: "It is a wonder that they were not hurt...