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...assassinated fellow workers and bosses alike in an attempt to win better pay and working conditions. The Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World) sang the praises of violence and provided numerous labor saints and martyrs. The great gangs that appeared in Chicago, New York and elsewhere in the 1920s were also social symptoms: not merely the fiefdoms of "little Caesars" bent on money and power, but the expression of a moral vacuum...
Died. Lieut. General Lewis H. Brereton, 76, pathfinder in military aviation, who with Billy Mitchell in the 1920s was in the thick of the fight to prove that aircraft could make junk out of Navy warships, in 1942 organized the India-based bomber force that struck the first offensive blows in the Far East (against Japanese forces in the Burma area), later commanded the First Allied Airborne Army in its 1944 glider-and-parachute invasion of The Netherlands; of a heart attack; in Washington...
Perry Jones, 69, dean of U.S. tennis coaches, rates her among the alltime greats: behind Helen Wills Moody, the star of the 1920s and 1930s, but ahead of Doris Hart and about on a par with Maureen Connolly, who in 1953 achieved a grand slam by sweeping the Australian, Wimbledon, French and U.S. singles championships. Which, Billie Jean announced last week, is precisely her goal...
...revolutions, proletarian and bourgeois, merged into one. The proletariat was represented by the collective-minded industrial urban workers; the bourgeoisie, by economically individualistic peasants. The industrial workers were, of course, the revolutionary elite, "the chief agent of socialism." But in the famines and civil wars that raged into the 1920s, this industrial flower was cut down; the Russian workers who had manned the barricades "physically and politically faded out." On the other hand, despite famine and purges, the bourgeois peasantry "survived in the tangible realities of rural life [and] the socialist revolution was like a phantom suspended in a void...
...fair-to-middling horseback rider, an energetic handball, volleyball and basketball player, a strong bowler and-by her own admission-a "lousy" tennis player. Which may be a source of some disappointment to her father René, who as France's famed "Crocodile" of the 1920s, twice won the U.S. and Wimbledon championships. But girls are supposed to take after their mothers anyway, and Catherine's mother, the former Simone Thion de la Chaume, is a golfer-the winner of six French amateur titles. Last week, at the Cascades Golf Club in Hot Springs, Va., chunky Catherine Lacoste...