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...Waldorf-Astoria hotel. Among the 1,000 spectators was Bridge Expert Sidney Lenz, President of the American Ping-Pong Association, who 30 years ago introduced the full-hand grip, now used by almost all ping-pong players. Happily watching the matches from a lavish box was George Swinnerton Parker of Boston, decorated by a white goatee and a pique evening waistcoat. He had donated the Parker cup, to be engraved with the name of the champion. Mr. Par ker helped invent ping-pong. His firm, Parker Brothers, controls the U. S. rights to ping-pong and manufactures 640 other indoor...
...Camelotist Anne Morgan, was played last week at the clubhouse of the American Women's Association, refereed by onetime Chess Champion Jose Capablanca, won by a Miss Elizabeth Wray. Named, for no particular reason, after King Arthur's hometown, Camelot was invented three years ago by George Swinnerton Parker, head of Parker Bros. of Salem, Mass., who manufacture more games than anyone else in the U.S. Camelot is played with pieces resembling pawn chessmen on an irregularly checkered board. It comes in "editions" of which Parker Bros. say they have sold...
Whelk, Trifling incidents make comedy at such serious gatherings. Professor Henry Hurd Swinnerton needed to display a whelk, a kind of sea snail, during his zoological lecture. He could not find his whelk. He searched his coat and waistcoat pockets, crawled under his lecture table, peered around the platform. He finally found the whelk in his hip pocket. Mountaineering Etiquet, Climbing Mt. Everest where atmospheric oxygen is so scant that mountaineers faint, is largely a matter of respiratory engineering, of providing light-weight tanks of oxygen for the climbers. Captain N. E. Odell, survivor of a tragic, ineffectual attempt...
...newspapers. In foreign contacts he will be valuable, for Mr. Doran is an international figure. Famed in London are his professional feasts. He has known how to secure such authors as Sir Arthur Gonan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, Arnold Bennett, Rudyard Kipling, Hugh Walpole, Herbert George Wells, Somerset Maugham, Frank Swinnerton. In the U. S. he has long been known as one of the very best people for very young writers to see. George Doran was never a man to turn away a novel because it was a "first." Consequently he has published even more bad books than good ones...
...Also out of San Francisco emerged James Swinnerton, Robert Edgren, Russell Channing Westover, Reuben Lucius ("Rube") Goldberg, Frank Gelett Burgess, Hype Igoe, the late Homer Davenport and T. A. Dorgan...