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...whom he was a wrapping clerk last winter, has designed one especially for him called "The Ghost." A phlegmatic, gentle youth, so homely that even his mother smiled when a friend said that, if not the best tennis player in the world, her son was certainly the ugliest, young Budge is likeable but undistinguished off a tennis court. He barely graduated from high school a year ago, spends his spare time imitating Bing Crosby or the Mills Brothers, drinks nothing stronger than milk. On the court, the quality that marks his game is the one in which he sometimes seems...
Meanwhile, the mobsters in Canada's relief camps, who have proved to be among the ugliest customers ever supported at their fellow citizens' expense, pressed on with their plans to "march" on Ottawa in motor trucks. Premier Bennett issued appeals to all Canadians of goodwill to oppose this mass trek to demand still more of Canada's taxpayers...
What are the facts of life? If only Church and Government could agree, Mexico would be spared what looks like her ugliest crisis since Dwight W. Morrow mediated between Catholicism and the Revolution (TIME, July 8, 1929). In politics and economics the Government sees everything through pinko-Socialist glasses. It rejects religion as a fraud, holding that God does not exist. As to sex, the Government favors teaching even little boys and girls all about themselves. Last week pious parents throughout Mexico were inciting their offspring to play hooky from schools in which such things are taught...
Then began the ugliest rioting of the strike. Down on the "Social" district, a mile from Woonsocket's business centre, bore a howling mob of hoodlums, some 1,000 strong. For three hours the town was theirs. Roaring up & down streets, they smashed, splintered, looted...
...year with Bruce Barton and knew its present President Stanley King. He married an Andover girl. Elizabeth Gushing Goodhue (no kin to Grace Goodhue Coolidge), has a son, John Gushing Fuess, who will be Harvard's baseball manager in 1935. The Fuesses live in what they call "the ugliest house in the world," a drab, gingerbready place on Hidden Road in Andover. "Jack" Fuess plays good contract bridge, good golf. When he dubs he remembers his German ancestry and cries: "Drei hundert tausend donnerwetters...