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...this straight, Mr. Editor-there is no "built-in crankiness" in the Williamsburg. She was designed by three of the best shipbuilders this country ever produced: John Burkhardt and James Hunter of the Bethlehem Ship Building Co., and William S. Newell of the Bath Iron Works [he built her]. She came out as the Aras and [her original owner, Hugh Chisholm] took her around the world...
Died. Wilbur Neil Burkhardt, 50, crusading editor of the Scripps-Howard San Francisco News; of injuries received when he jumped from the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge; in San Francisco...
...Louis Lindbergh found himself facing a news cameraman he knew and liked-Edward J. Burkhardt of the Post-Dispatch, who is a captain in Lindbergh's old National Guard. The result: the old, smiling, agreeable Lindbergh (see cover...
...longer a star attraction, gave expression to his egotistic dissatisfaction with this state of affairs by trouncing Berkeley Bell of Texas, 6-1, 6-4. In the most interesting match of the evening, between two young Californians who are the first women to turn professional since Lenglen, tiny Ethel Burkhardt Arnold of Los Angeles beat Jane Sharp of Pasadena...
...crowds in the East, their most serious patrons in California. Their worst behaved galleries were in Iowa, where spectators were slow to learn that loud chatting and peanut shelling are not good manners at tennis matches. Never likely to rival either Tilden or Lenglen as a drawing card, Ethel Burkhardt Arnold is at least likely to amaze galleries by her size (4 ft. 11 in.), the speed of her awkward forehand drive, her almost incredible stamina. As Ethel Burkhardt, she ranked high among amateur women tennists in 1929 and 1930. She dropped out of major play for four seasons...