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Sebert Ellsworth Davenport, III '34, of Forest Hills, Long Island, has been elected captain of the Freshman tennis team. Davenport, who was national Junior Indoor Doublen champion two years ago, has been playing number one regularly on Coach Cowles undefeated 1934 squad. The first-year captain graduated from the Westminster School in Simsbury, Conn...
Next day Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair flew over from Dallas, 110 mi. to the west, to see his costly cauldron. He found the entire countryside shrouded in haze. Workmen were busy clearing away 20 acres of pine forest surrounding the flaming gusher, trying to remove bits of the white-hot derrick and machinery. There was not much that Oilman Sinclair, always popular with his men, could do but assure speedy pensions to the families of the victims...
...final A. E. F. engagement?biggest in U.S. military history?occurred between the Argonne Forest and the Meuse River just west of Verdun. Foch's purpose was to drive the Germans back on the Ardennes Forest, coop them up, cut their rail communications to the western front. General Pershing had only two weeks to transfer his ist Army from St. Mihiel to this new sector and organize his attack. Many of his divisions were inexperienced in battle. Ahead of him lay rough, heavily fortified country...
...Lake Forest, 111. Rose Wiggin, 4, and Sally Wiggin, 6, after reading a great number of fairy stories, stripped, coated themselves with their mother's vanishing cream, ran downstairs into a formal, adult dinner-party under the impression that they were invisible...
...William N. Reynolds of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels), who was lately elected to succeed Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle (resigned last year); President Bennette Eugene Geer of Southern Worsted Corp.; Dr. Robert Lee Flowers, secretary-treasurer of the University, and Dr. Watson Smith Rankin, onetime dean of Wake Forest College (N. C.) School of Medicine, director of the hospital and orphanage program. Alternating between Manhattan and North Carolina, the Board meets every month. Last month it handed out $886,000 to the institutions on its list...