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...come tax investigators, sent by an un sympathetic Administration to probe Senator Long's finances. Two live slander suits pended against him in Washington and Baton Rouge. All eight Louisiana Congressional Districts were organizing anti-Long clubs. The scrappy Women's Committee of Louisiana retained General Samuel Tilden Ansell, dismissed prosecutor of the Senatorial investigation of Louisiana politics, and John G. Holland, dismissed sleuth of the same committee, to press its ouster charges against Huey Long and his henchman John Holmes Overton in the Senate...
...Yale News reporter cornered Big Bill Tilden last week and asked him for an interview. Mr. Tilden must have been pretty hard up for ideas because he made some amazing statements. "Yale," he declared, "is my favorite college because it is the perfect balance between the 'rah-rah' over-grown prep-school attitude of Princeton and the pseudo, 'to-hell-with-everything' attitude of Harvard." Having gotten off to a rousing start, he reached a dramatic climax with the statement, "Right now I would be willing to bet that Lawrenceville could beat Yale. Harvard, or Princeton in tennis. This...
Gaunt, graceful William Tatem Tilden II strode out on the green canvas floor of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden one night last week, and smiled his satisfaction upon the galleries. There was plenty to smile about, for not one seat in the huge house was vacant. A crowd of 16,000. biggest ever to attend a U. S. tennis match, had paid $30,125 to get in. Of that sum the Garden collected $10,500. Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's Free Milk Fund for Babies got $3,760. Promoter Tilden, his business manager William O'Brien...
...runner to help support his mother and grandmother. But every morning, every evening he practiced his tennis, developed a powerful forehand drive, a smashing backhand "down the line." At 24, Walter Merrill Hall was national clay court doubles champion. At 30 he came within two points of beating Bill Tilden in the national singles, might have done so if rain had not blurred his spectacles. At 45, last summer, he won the New Hampshire State championship. Last week his devotion to the game brought its high reward when he was nominated for the presidency of the U. S. Lawn Tennis...
Last month Tilden dangled the bait again, this time $25,000 down, $25,000 guaranteed profits from "byproducts" (i.e., endorsements). All Vines had to do was join Tilden and Frenchman Henri Cochet on an eight-month playing tour beginning next January with a Vines-Tilden match in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden Tilden planned to call the tour a "professional Davis Cup series." He slyly reminded Vines that his amateur career, begun so spectacularly, seemed to have fizzled. Sadly Vines agreed that he "was dead, killed by too much tennis and too many officials." Last week he took...