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...citified suburb of Forest Hills. L. I., groundskeepers rolled, clipped and patted the Stadium courts of the West Side Tennis Club where this week 90 players will start in what, until officials see fit to sanction an open, remains the most important U. S. tournament of the year???the Men's National Singles Championship...
...among his old friends, Ohio's farmers. After the campaign was under way Mr. Cox and Senator Bulkley jumped in with what they called "the choice of the Administration"?Representative Charles West. Three-cornered the battle waged, the most excited primary that Ohio has had in many a year???White and West trying to outshout each other in New Deal enthusiasm until even "Vic" Donahey repented his defection and piped a half-hearted...
...coffee pot. Into its cavernous maw is dumped nearly half the world's total average annual production of 250,000,000 bags. About half is poured in from cans and packages, about half in bulk. Out of the Niagaran spout are poured 60 billion cups a year???one and one-third cups daily for every U. S. man, woman & child. Two-thirds of the coffee for the big U. S. pot comes from Brazil. Colombia, Venezuela, Guatemala, Mexico, Java, Mocha and other tropical lands furnish the other one-third, mild coffees which are blended with the strong Brazilian. Using...
...flannel caps in a new leather case. More extraordinary even than his caps?which are already creating a vogue like the Helen Wills eyeshade? are what Vines has inside his size 10 tennis shoes?a pair of arch preservers. His rackets?he uses 35 a year???are 13½ oz. with a 4? in. handle. For diversion, he likes to polish or scuttle about in his new Ford coupe. His best friend is one Carey MacPherson, who plays mediocre tennis, owns part of a Pasadena gas station. He is engaged to marry a Miss Verle Low. Vines's father owns nine...
...Ford auto factory. Last week Barney Oldfield, now 53, was at Daytona Beach, Fla., as was Sir Malcolm Campbell with his Blue Bird, a $115,000 twelve-cylinder, 1,400-h.p. Napier-motored racing car in which he hoped to beat the world's record he made last year???245.733 m.p.h...