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Last week the exclusive National Academy of Sciences acknowledged the recent contributions of western scientists by holding its 67th annual meeting in Berkeley, Calif., the Academy's first visit west of the Mississippi. Some 100 members attended sessions divided among three of California's famed research centres : University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University at Palto Alto, California Institute of Technology at Pasadena. Some points made in speeches...
...Berkeley Bell, 22-year-old Texas tennis star, by defeating debonair, beret-wearing Jean Borotra, only French entrant: in the first round of the national singles championship at Forest Hills...
Music lovers who live about San Francisco Bay flocked, one chilly night last week, to the University of California's Berkeley campus to hear the first symphony concert presented in the Greek Theatre-the gift of Publisher William Randolph Hearst-in seven years. Snug in overcoats, the audience found the renditions of Weber, Rimsky-Korsakov and Wagner workmanlike but uninspired, applauded the occasion rather than the music. For it was a night of records. The conductor was black-haired, bright-eyed Antonia Brico, first woman ever to conduct Berlin's philharmonic orchestra, first woman to conduct San Francisco...
...University of California, Berkeley...
...Santa Monica were seeded No. i-the defending champions-when the national doubles tennis tournament started last week at the Longwood Cricket Club at Chestnut Hill, Mass. Form ran true, and the first four seeded teams got into the semifinals. John Van Ryn and Wilmer Allison put out Berkeley Bell and Gregory Mangin, 6-8, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3. Then Doeg & Lott had to beat Tilden & Hunter, knowing that Hunter was playing much better and that Tilden, though he had a bad charley-horse in his hip, wanted moje than anything to get back this title which...