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...Perry last week blacked his eye on an awning rod bowing to Helen Jacobs, threw a handful of rolls at Lester Stoefen, appeared with a wave in his hair. At Germantown, Pa., George Lott and Lester Stoefen retained their U. S. doubles championship by defeating John Van Ryn and Wilmer Allison 6-4, 9-7, 3-6, 6-4. At Rye, N. Y., most of the first-class tennists in the U. S. assembled to put the finishing touches on their games. In the citified suburb of Forest Hills. L. I., groundskeepers rolled, clipped and patted the Stadium courts...
Left. By Writer Ringgold Wilmer ("Ring") Lardner: a net estate valued at $192,927.63; to his widow, Mrs. Ellis Abbott Lardner...
...readers are truck and dairy farmers in New York, New Jersey, and eastern Connecticut. Biggest farm magazine in the U. S. is Curtis Publishing Co.'s Country Gentleman, with a national circulation of 1,738,853. Close behind are Crowell Publishing Co.'s Country Home and Wilmer Atkinson Co.'s Farm Journal, with 1,500,000 apiece. Successful Farming, published by Meredith Publishing Co. in Des Moines with special attention to stock raising, has 1,150,000 readers. Capper's Farmer (Topeka) and American Farming (Chicago) have just under 1,000,000 as has Webb Publishing...
Married. Wanda Toscanini, 25, daughter of Conductor Arturo Toscanini; and Pianist Vladimir Horowitz. 29; in Milan. Divorce Revealed. Lily Pons, 29, French operasinger; from August Mesritz, fiftyish, Dutch lawyer; in Paris. Retiring. Dr. William Holland Wilmer, 70, famed eye surgeon whose patients included Siam's King Prajadhipok, Charles Lindbergh, J. P. Morgan, Booth Tarkington, the late Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Sir Auckland Geddes, Flyer Jimmy Doolittle; as director of Johns Hopkins Hospital's Wilmer Institute of Ophthalmology; next July 1. Reason: retirement...
Accosted by newshawks in Baltimore, where he had gone to have his eyes examined by famed Ophthalmologist William Holland Wilmer, J. Pierpont Morgan explained: "You see, if I expect to get any ducks my glasses must be right." Next day, from a New York Rod & Gun Club blind on Spesuti Island, he shot four black ducks and eight canvasbacks...