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...Elihu Root released their Roosevelt correspondence. Ralph Pulitzer turned over evidence on Panama which the New York World assembled for its defense when President Roosevelt ordered U. S. Attorney for New York Henry Lewis Stimson (now Secretary of State) to prosecute for criminal libel. From Dr. William H. Wilmer Biographer Pringle learned that the President went blind in his left eye in 1908 and "not more than a half dozen people knew it." Mrs. Robert Bacon helped fill in the blank spots on the first Roosevelt marriage. Here and there are footnoted a few "confidential sources" but none of large...
...showing?Richard Norris Williams II, champion in 1914 and 1916. No one was too much surprised when Sidney Wood Jr., boastful but erratic young Wimbledon champion, was beaten by an unseeded player in the third round nor when Berkeley Bell showed annoyance at having to finish his match with Wilmer Allison on a court outside the stadium. There are at least one upset and one squabble in every tournament...
...Wilmer Allison of Austin, Tex., and John Van Ryn of Philadelphia: the U. S. tennis doubles championship; by beating Berkeley Bell & Gregory Mangin 6-4. 8-6. 6-3 in the finals at Chestnut Hill, Mass. ¶ Kaye Don, in Miss England II: the first heat of the Harmsworth Trophy Race, for speedboats, at 89:913 m.p.h.; beating famed Gar Wood of Detroit, in Miss America IX, and his brother George in Miss America VIII; at Detroit. In the second heat, watched by a crowd of 500,000 and won by George Wood, both Kaye Don and Gar Wood were...
...final. The shock had a different effect. In the quarterfinals. Vines & Gledhill lost to Clifford Sutter of New Orleans and Bruce Barnes of Austin, Tex., in a three-hour match, 4-6, 10-8, 10-12, 8-6, 6-3; John Van Ryn of East Orange, N. J. and Wilmer Allison of Austin, Tex. beat Perry & Hughes 4-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3. Rain delayed the play for three days. When the courts were finally dry enough for the completion of one of the most surprising rounds on record in a national tournament, Francis Xavier Shields...
...Brothers Mayo- Dr. William James, 70, and Dr. Charles Horace, 66, of the Mayo Clinic. Less complete were agreements on Drs. George Edmund de Schweinitz (ophthalmology), Chevalier Jackson (bronchoscopy), William Williams Keen (surgery), all of Philadelphia; Drs. Howard Atwood Kelly (gynecology, another Johns Hopkins founder) and William Holland Wilmer (ophthalmology), both of Johns Hopkins; Dr. William Hallock Park, Manhattan immunologist. Of the 19 living past presidents of the American Medical Association, nine were absent from all the jury's lists of "great doctors...