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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bright on successive days, Ellsworth Vines put out Frank Shields, twelfth ranking U. S. player and Richard Norris Williams II, twice (1914, 1916) national champion. He beat Shields with a spurt of brilliance after a slow start. In the first set he seemed indifferent. After a point had been settled he would shamble back to serve or receive with an absent expression, bored, disinterested. Once in difficulties, he showed his best game. Against Williams he lost the second set but then roused, ran away with the match. Next day he beat Hunter for the second time in a week. Erratic...
Arthur Newton had never done any running. He was 40?already past the age for marathoners?yet the plan he decided on was to become the greatest runner in the world. One day he began to run around his farm. Round the fence he went, twice a day for as long as he could keep it up, in the morning and at night. The Kaffirs who had been allowed too near stared at the thin, sweating man running clumsily in his farm clothes under the glaring sun. He sent to Durban for shoes and shorts. In two years his fame...
...dominated his six sisters, holding all the titles to the Wendel properties in his own name, forbidding them to marry lest the family property be split up. He looked on with approval as they made their own clothes and wore the round sailor hats popular in the 1870's. Twice only did he meet rebellion. When Georgiana ran away at the age of 50 and registered at the Park Avenue Hotel, Brother John at once had her committed to the psychopathic ward at Bellevue and later pronounced insane by a sheriff's jury. After much maneuvering, legal and medical, Georgiana...
...California's Fleishhackers, Crockers. Armsbys. McNears, and Amadeo Peter Giannini. Before Conductor van Hoogstraten, Gaetano Merola. Maestro Bernardino Molinari, Artur Rodzinski conducted this year at San Mateo. Following him will be E. Fernandez Arbos. for 25 years conductor of Madrid's Symphony. Conductor van Hoogstraten will lead twice at San Mateo. twice at San Francisco...
...California, Missouri and Kansas, but retired from pulpiteering proper in 1908, went to Arizona "as a matter of health insurance." There he still lives, in a Spanish-Mission house near Tucson. He has recently (February) returned from Hawaii, where he worked on Exit, fished for mahimahi from a sampan. Twice married, ex-Preacher Wright has three children, all issue of the first wife...