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...their X, Y, Z home stretch, the Academy's 40 Immortals also adopted "Yacht," the last of a long line of English sporting terms which Frenchmen have been twisting on their tongues since they took up le sport. At one ponderous session the academicians considered "Yankee," pronounced it with aversion, decided officially that "Yankee" is a word having no rightful place in French...
...Then Wood ran out four games for the match. Refused permission to wear spikes, Czech Roderick Menzel played shoeless. Champion Fred Perry, too indifferent to win love sets, frisked through a match with one Arthur S. Fowler of Pleasantville, N. Y., 6-3, 6-2, 6-1. William Tatem Tilden II, present as a spectator, announced that Perry's strokes were bad, predicted that Donald Budge would play him in the final, snubbed an autograph hunter who asked him to write his full name: "I'm like Garbo. I just sign my last...
Stanchly protecting his men from demands that they do "something practical," famed Willis Rodney Whitney, longtime (1900-32) head of General Electric Co.'s research laboratories at Schenectady, N. Y., used to say: "I would rather teach than be President." His tradition of free inquiry continues. Consequently by no means all the bulletins that emanate from Schenectady have to do with straightforward improvements in electrical equipment. Lately GE announced a garbage-grinder which would simplify removal of "kitchen waste" by flushing it, chopped fine, down the sink drain. Even farther removed from the usual run of industrial research...
Johnstown, N. Y.: "Health authorities reported 24 cases of infantile paralysis today in the Johnstown-Gloversville area...
...Fishkill, N. Y. last month Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. gave his chauffeur a $20 bill to buy groceries, was surprised when the local bank declared it counterfeit, sent it back. In Washington he handed the same bogus bill to his chief clerk, asked for change, got it. Declared Secretary Morgenthau: "The joke's really on the chief clerk...