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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago in the finals of the Metropolitan Grass Court Championship in Brooklyn, Ellsworth Vines, 18, unknown, beat Francis T. Hunter, second ranking U. S. player. Entering last week the annual invitation tournament of the Sea Bright, N. J. Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club ?a tournament which has become regarded as a more important sign-pointer for the national than any other mid-season event ? Ellsworth Vines was no longer unknown. People had learned about him ? that his father owns a chain of Pacific Coast meat stores, that he began playing when he was six and was later...
...looking for the golden tomb of the White Goddess of the Sahara. Some of the things his camera sees are "the Wall Street of Carthage," a bleak row of empty stone buildings; amphitheatres where the lions of Libya enjoyed Christians; the place where Cato committed suicide; a strange unknown city called the City of Fear, buried in the middle of the Sahara. The houses of this city, built in a country where in modern times rain never falls, were made entirely of sand and mud and stood eight stories high. There is a palace equipped with a complete heating plant...
...hour with a friend years older than himself in a little redwood cabin near the foothills, clad as always in business clothes of American cut attests to the simplicity that asks little of the world, and offers much-a simplicity that, to Main Street, speaks in an unknown tongue. ETHELYN LESLIE HUSTON East Hollywood, Calif...
Light reflected from two samples of the same cloth placed in the machine, passes into the cell, gives an electrical impulse which is indicated by a galvanometre. The indicator hand is then set at zero, the unknown sample is introduced. If the hand again points to zero the match is perfect. If it varies to the right the second sample is too dark, to the left, too light. A variation of three calibrated scale divisions is considered a passable commercial match...
David Cooper, an unknown from the Middle West, leaps into fame overnight by winning the national championship at Forest Hills. More, he leaps into a good job, for Mr. Harker, genial villain of the piece, is not only a member of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association's executive committee but has a penchant for employing tennis champions: he seems to think it helps him in his business. For a long time David sees nothing wrong with the picture. Mr. Harker pays him to sell bonds but insists on his playing in all the big U. S. and European tournaments...