Word: fabyan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jerseyites, a party of ten college girls mostly from Texas, three geneticists returning from a convention in Edinburgh, four U. S. aircraft engineers who had been assembling U. S. planes for Britain. The sister (Maurine) and brother-in-law (Franklin Dexter) of U. S. Tennist Sarah Palfrey Fabyan were aboard. Since no U. S. lives were lost the incident was far less grave internationally than the sinking of the Lusitania (of 1,198 dead, 124 were Americans), but officials in Washington, D. C. expressed angry concern (see p. 13). Winston Churchill's staff sped plans to convoy all passenger...
...Stammers, 6-2, 6-0, with the most brilliant tennis of the whole tournament. While 18,000 excited spectators compared Miss Marble to the late great Suzanne Lenglen, the new champion came back to the centre court to win the women's doubles (with Sarah Palfrey Fabyan) and the mixed doubles (with Bobby Riggs). Riggs & Cooke took the men's doubles to make a clean sweep of all fiveWimbledon titles...
...Boston and Maine railroad, will run one ski train Sunday through Crawford Notch to Fabyan, New Hampshire, leaving Boston at 8 o'clock in the morning and returning the same evening. Crawford Notch has ten inches of snow, while Fabyan...
Ernest E. Tyzzer, George Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology; Andrew W. Sellards, associate professor of Tropical Medicine; and Granville A. Bennett, assistant professor of Pathology, have discovered traces of encephalomyletis, human sleeping sickness, in ring-necked pheasants...
Women's Final. On the distaff side, the semi-final between Alice Marble (seeded second to Helen Jacobs) and crafty Sarah Palfrey Fabyan made up for the lacklustre men's matches. Playing her usual powerful but erratic game, onetime Champion Marble twice came within a point of defeat before taking the match, 5-7, 7-5, 7-5. Next day, playing against Nancye Wynne, 21-year-old Melbourne stenographer who had beaten California's Dorothy Bundy on her way to the final, Alice Marble needed just 22 minutes to win the championship...