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...last two singles men are, in order, Alvah Sulloway and Elwood Henneman. The doubles positions are made up of the Lowman-Hauck team at number 1 and the Dorson-Fuld combination at 2. In the Miami match Adrian Malone and Art Brown, only Sophomore on the team, paired for the number 3 doubles match and are likely to perform again today...
...appearance a pure preRaphaelite, she was actually more like an emancipated Bryn Mawr girl. With her towering brother Adrian (6 ft. 5 in.), and some friends, she was a party to the famed hoax on a British admiral and the entire ship's company of H.M.S. Dreadnought. Disguised as the Emperor of Abyssinia & party (see cut. p. 93), they were brought aboard with due ceremony, barely restrained the captain from ordering a 21-gun salute, got safely away undiscovered...
Thos. Cook & Son Ltd. scored with a knighthood to Great-Grandson Thomas Cook, 34, "the youngest knight dubbed since 1911"; British Broadcasting Corp. with knighthood for its musical director, Dr. Adrian Cedric Boult; and among the 53 others knighted were George VI's private secretary, Major the Hon. Alexander Henry Louis Hardinge, and Nigel Leslie Campbell, principal banking trustee for the $10,000,000 philanthropic fund just given by Motor Maker Lord Nuffield to succor Britain's unemployed and honor Stanley Baldwin for his handling of the Constitutional Crisis (TIME, Jan. 4). Last week Nuffield got nothing...
From one rich U. S. family to another last week passed working control of the Virginian Railway, the 600-mi. model coal road built by the late Standard Oilman Henry Huttleston Rogers in the days of Roosevelt I (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935). In Manhattan, Adrian Hoffman Larkin, Virginian Board Chairman and trustee of the Rogers estate, laconically announced that 75% of the Virginian's common stock had been sold to interests identified with Andrew William Mellon. The consideration, said Mr. Larkin, was in excess of $31,000,000. Actual purchaser was a group headed by Koppers Co., Eastern...
Back from Chief Rockwell came a sheet of White House stationery on which the White House's veteran penman, Adrian Barclay Tolley, had traced in spidery Spencerian the following message...