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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Dr. John William Dickson, 68, president of Upper Iowa University; of heart disease; in Fayette...
...Eileen Bennett Whittingstall. Before her marriage to Painter Edmund Fearnley Whittingstall, Eileen Bennett defeated Mrs. Molla Mallory in the 1928 Wightman Cup Matches. Still the prettiest and best-dressed of woman tennis players, her game has improved brilliantly this year. But while Mrs. Moody was sweeping through the upper half of the draw almost as easily as in 1929. Mrs. Whittingstall was having a hard time of it in the lower half. In the quarter-finals she played a great match against Helen Jacobs, considered second best woman player in the U.S. After reaching 3-1 in the first...
...TIME, a whisker is a whisker whether it grows out of chin, ear, nostril, facial mole or upper...
...London reported the wettest day of the wettest summer in 40 years last week. The Thames was up. The London fire brigade received hourly calls to pump out flooded houses. At Silverdale. near Stoke-upon-Trent, the whole (town took to the upper stories. Streets, fields, and lower stories were awash...
NIGHT IN THE HOTEL-Eliot Crawshay-Williams-Liveright ($2).* The Hotel des Anges et d'Albion, its arresting title notwithstanding, was a second-rate hotel overlooking a second-rate Riviera town. Its 22 guests were a fair cross-section of upper-middle-class England (except for three who were French). When you first see them gathered in the dining room for their skimpy déjeuner they look a pretty average, not to say mediocre lot; but when Author Crawshay-Williams lets you follow them into their separate sanctums, shows them quarreling, soliloquizing, making love, they cease...