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More Bacardi seeped into the U. S. during Prohibition than before-40,000 cases annually. An enormously greater quantity of domestic rum was bootlegged under faked Bacardi labels and thus the trade name's value has soared. Last week it reported that President Henri Schueg, elderly son-in-law of the founding Facundo who holds the balance of power in the factional Bacardi family, was about to journey to Manhattan to settle once & for all who was to cash in on the 13 years of free advertising...
Plump, coquettish Adrienne Delamare, aged 12, wanted to marry brisk, bold-eyed Henri Pinteau, 17. Their parents not only approved-they begged that M. le President sanction by special dispensation a child marriage in violation of French law. M. le President considered the reason: a pink and squawling babe safely born Aug. 28 at which time he weighed nine pounds. "Mon Dieu," murmured President Lebrun, "Est-ce possible...
...Republic bowed to a fact of nature. The law, he decreed, should in this case be set aside. Proud 12-year-old Adrienne Delamare announced that she will be married Oct. 7 by the Mayor of Catillon. "She will be the Youngest Wife in France," boasted bold Henri Pinteau, "and I shall be the Youngest Husband...
...Paris, famed Henri Cochet, No. 1 tennist of France, finally stopped denying rumors, increasingly persistent for the last two years, that he would turn professional. His plans: a series of matches, with Martin Plaa for partner, v. William Tilden II and Bruce Barnes, late this month...
...first brief glimpse of the player who has become indisputably, for this year at least, the world's No. 1. Last winter Jack Crawford won the Australian singles championship at Melbourne, beating Keith Gledhill in the final. In the final of the French hard court championship, he finished Henri Cochet in short straight sets. In July he won at Wimbledon in a final that some experts considered the greatest tennis match ever played, against Ellsworth Vines. John Herbert ("Jack") Crawford needed only a victory at Forest Hills this week for a clean sweep of the world's four...