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...Forest Hills, L. I. last week, Helen Jacobs won the U. S. national tennis championship for the third year in a row. Last year, when Helen Wills Moody defaulted in the final, Miss Jacobs' victory lacked eclat, served to increase the un- reasonable antipathy with which U. S. galleries regard her. She won in 1932 when Mrs. Moody was not entered. With Mrs. Moody out of the field again last week, Miss Jacobs dropped only one set, to Mary Greef Harris of Kansas City, gave demure little Sarah Palfrey of Brookline, Mass, a lesson in the final...
...Since the War, she has won 20 titles at Wimbledon (doubles and mixed doubles), innumerable minor championships, played Suzanne Lenglen in a Wimbledon singles final. Last week, equipped with a British accent and a contract to write about the tournament, Elizabeth Ryan, 43. was entered at Forest Hills. Playing in shorts for the first time in her career, she lost to Helen Jacobs in the quarterfinals...
...Washington Oklahoma's Senator Gore chimed in: "Out in Arizona they have a petrified forest. It might be a good idea to graft some of them onto the saplings...
When his plump-cheeked wife got the news in the London suburb of Forest Hill, she gave regal audience to newshawks: "I intend to take my responsibilities as Queen seriously. My two sons are excited at the idea that they are now Princes." But before the royal family could get to the coronation city of Khotan on the southern rim of the Taklamakan Desert, the troops of General Shen Shih-tsai, young Chinese provincial governor, swooped down on King Khalid with planes furnished by Soviet Russia. Last week a brief dispatch from the sand bowl disposed of the pickle maker...
...Saratoga Springs, N. Y. the elm trees are so huge that from the air the town (pop.: 13,000) looks like a dense forest. There what seemed like the most successful U. S. racing season in 20 years last week reached its climax-a month-long meet in which 600 of the best thoroughbreds in the U. S. will compete in 185 races for $350,000 in prizes...