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...Under was a twosome: 25-year-old Adrian Quist, a fifth year Davis Cupper rated by many as the world's No. 2 amateur; and 19-year-old John Bromwich, a sophomore who caused a sensation in international tennis last year with his either-handed, both-handed racket grip. On the U. S. side was the world's No. 1 amateur, U. S.-English-French-Australian Champion Donald Budge; his doubles partner, Gene Mako; and 20-year-old Robert Riggs, the Los Angeles "quickie" who in two years had jumped from the municipal tennis courts to next...
...nose-blowing, said the New York State Department of Health last week, there are many schools of thought, but on nose-blowing as a science, only one. Strictly unscientific is the popular custom of gripping the end of the nose with the handkerchief, for it closes the nostrils, backfires the nose into the ear tubes or sinuses. When the nose is in good hearty shape, the grip method may not be harmful, but "when it is diseased, beware...
...series of bridge spans, viaducts and curving highways, came to a stop on a go-foot span. Below them rippled a narrow streamer of the St. Lawrence known as the International Rift, through which runs the U. S.-Canada boundary line. Each with his right hand clutching one grip of an enormous pair of shears, they snipped a gaily fluttering ribbon. The first Thousand Islands International Bridge, from Collins Landing, N. Y. to Ivy Lea, Ont., was officially open...
Last week the Government of President Lázaro Cárdenas remained financially above water largely by reason of U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s continued purchases of Mexican silver. Mexico was in the grip of an economic upset. One day last week the great square in front of the Presidential Palace was turned over to the 25,000 demonstrators of the CTM (Confederation of Mexican Workers). The CTM Secretary General, intense Vicente Lombardo Toledano urged support of the Mexican New Deal, proclaimed: "All property owners and capitalists in Mexico are Fascists...
...reports of disaffection against the four-month-old Nazi regime. In a series of articles in the New York Herald Tribune last week Mr. Sheean gloomily summed up his investigations. "The impression made by ten days of observation of the new Vienna is that National Socialism has a firm grip on the life of the place and has come to stay. Terror reigns throughout the population and nobody dares give a plain answer to a plain question. . . . All the jails are full and the concentration camp at Dachau (near Munich) has grown to unwieldy proportions. . . . The total number placed...