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...sunny morning last week, Hilda, an 8-year-old, 3,000-lb. Indian elephant in Brooklyn's Prospect Park Zoo, woke up feeling kittenish. Sniffing the fragrant scent wafted over from the Botanical Gardens, she strolled up & down the edge of the concrete moat which separates animals from sightseers, squealed coquettishly to her 4,500-lb. mate, Bill, to come out and join her. But Bill had got out of bed with the wrong foot; when he came out. pointedly ignored her. Vexed, Hilda gave a loud, long trumpet. Suddenly Bill lowered his head, charged, hit Hilda broadside, knocked...
...defending the championship, all the best women tennists were entered: Chile's Anita Lizana (U. S. champion), France's Simone Mathieu (French champion), California's Dorothy Bundy (Australian champion), Poland's Jadwiga ("Jaja") Jedrzejowska (last year's runner-up at Wimbledon), Denmark's Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling, California's Alice Marble, Helen Jacobs and Helen Wills Moody. Of the two most famed rivals, Helen Jacobs, out of recent competition because of an injured shoulder, was not even seeded. And Helen Moody, trying for her third comeback in international tennis after three years...
...they feared or hoped might happen any day. To British galleries the 31-year-old Californian had demonstrated that she was still good enough to win and also shaky enough to be beaten-which she twice was, in pre-Wimbledon warmup tournaments. Her opponent in the semi-finals was Hilda Sperling, the same Hilda Sperling who had trounced her two weeks before in the London championships. But when the semi-finals were over, and Mrs. Moody had downed Frau Sperling after a grueling free-for-all (12-10, 6-4), the galleries knew at last that Mrs. Moody was once...
Courtroom Obbligato (Sat. 7.30 p.m., CBS). Columbia Workshop sets Hilda Lawrence's night court stream of consciousness to Tom Bennett's music...
Third U. S. name was that of Philadelphia's blonde, blue-eyed, Yankee-born Hilda Emery Davis, who in private life is the wife of Danceband-Leader Meyer Davis. Forty-two-year-old Mrs. Davis, having been a professional pianist at the age of 10, having mothered five children, and taken a fling at Tin Pan Alley (Yon Are the Reason for My Love Song), had decided on a plunge into serious composition. The result, a symphonic poem, The Last Knight, based on some mystical verses by the late G. K. Chesterton, got solicitous treatment from Conductor Monteux, Composer...