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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...names of the nine Assistant Head Ushers from the Junior class were announced last night by Madison Sayles '27, chairman of the Class Day Committee. They are: H. C. Bartlett, H. W. Bragdon, Langdon Dearborn, D. E. Garrison, A. A. Holbrook, E. B. Jackson, V. O. Jones, J. L. Pool, C. A. Pratt, H. W. Sayles, and Moses Wiliams...
...Cochet v. Tilden. Henri Cochet started like the cyclone that defeated Tilden in the U. S. lawn championships last summer. But Tilden on his peak was undisturbed, won three straight sets. Gallant in victory, he refused to accept the umpire's decisions which went against Cochet. On this day the crowd applauded Tilden...
...Lacoste v. Tilden. The finals . . . RenÉ Lacoste, a leading, eellike man with blue-black hair, with dark circles under his eyes . . . Tilden, long arms and long legs covering the court like a madcap daddylonglegs . . . both confident . . . both using every weapon of the game, tantalizing chop-strokes, lobs, uncanny placements, cannonballs . . . Lacoste injuring a leg trying to recover a Tilden cannonball . . . Tilden being called three times for foot faults by Allan Muhr, umpire from the U. S. . . . Tilden arguing with Muhr...
...been said that in New York the Century is thought of as "just a train" while in Chicago it is an institution. If that be true, perhaps Conductor Frank V. Hendrix will seem even more of a personage than Conductor Kennedy, when he officiates at the Chicago end of the anniversary run with his colleagues, Conductor Frank A. Jefferey and John S. Lund.* Gruff as a Southern colonel and as proud of tradition, Conductor Hendrix lacks but a few days of Conductor Kennedy's seniority. Both joined the road in 1873 when Commodore Vanderbilt was its president. Both retire before...
Porter. New York Central officials deny that there is any distinction between Century sections. There is, they say, no "first," no "last," save as the trains are spaced a block* or two apart on the runs. Nevertheless, should Calvin Coolidge or George V or Charles Augustus Lindbergh signify a desire to travel as a private citizen (i. e. not in a private car) between Chicago and Manhattan, he would undoubtedly be assigned space on the section conducted by Conductor Kennedy or Conductor Hendrix, the section called "first" only for convenience, perhaps, but invariably attended...