Word: wightman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Gouverneur Morris, famed novelist, to Ruth Wightman, his secretary; at Salinas, Cal., a year ago. The marriage was made public last week when a second ceremony was held just after Mr. Morris had obtained a final decree of divorce from his first wife, Elise Waterbury Morris, in Los Angeles...
Tennis. In the torrid hollow back of Colombes Stadium, scene of the steeplechasers' collapse (TIME, July 21), the Olympic tennis courts were swept clean by Americans. Women's singles: Helen Wills. Women's doubles: Helen Wills and Mrs. George Wightman. Mixed doubles: Mrs. Marion Jessup and Vincent Richards. Men's singles: Vincent Richards. Men's doubles: Vincent Richards and Francis T. Hunter...
With Mrs. George Wightman on her side, Helen got back at Kathleen, whose ally was Mrs. Phyllis Covell...
...American Women's Tennis Team contending at Wimbleton, London suburb, for the Wightman Cup, was decisively beaten by its British sisters...
...second and last day Miss McKane defeated Miss Wills 6-2, 6-2; Mrs. Covell defeated Mrs. Mallory 6-2, 5-7, 6-2; Mrs. Beamish (British) defeated Miss Goss, 6-11, 8-10, 6-3; Mrs. C. W. Wightman and Miss Helen Wills defeated Miss McKane and Miss Evelyn Colyer. Thus of seven events the U. S. ladies won only one event...