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...seven straight victories over Australia. At 29, Ted Schroeder, the U.S. mainstay, was admittedly past his peak. Uncoiling a booming serve, Ken won the first game with the loss of only one point. Barging up to the net with racehorse strides, playing the position with the adroitness of a Vincent Richards, McGregor kept Schroeder constantly off balance...
Gone are the square, bloated, inverted-bathtub lines of the old models. The new cars are slimmer and more graceful (see cut). Said Packard Engineer Jesse G. Vincent: "We had to fall in line with modern design...
Seabright has also stood for lack of fuss. It built no permanent stands, kept its roomy, shingled clubhouse modest. Since Rumson is short of hotels for transients, touring amateurs such as Big Bill Tilden, Little Bill Johnston, Vincent Richards, Molla Mallory, Helen Wills and Helen Jacobs were customarily put up in the sprawling seashore-gothic palaces of the members. Seabright was quiet, too. If a visitor happened to ask for a highball, he was gently reminded that the club has never served liquor. Nor, for 73 years, did the club allow Sunday-morning tennis, though that rule was repealed this...
...cheer her. In Luxembourg, she went to a banquet given for her by Grand Duchess Charlotte, took Madam Minister Perle Mesta out to lay a wreath on the grave of General George Patton. After that, she was off for Paris, where she had a date with President Vincent Auriol...
McCarthy finally accepted his doctor's advice, told Boston's General Manager Joe Cronin that he could carry on no longer. From St. Louis, where his Boston Red Sox were playing, came the formal announcement: Joseph Vincent McCarthy had quit...