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...from Washington's Boiling Field last week soared a big Army plane carrying Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley on the first leg of his journey to the Philippines. The same day on the other side of the globe Missouri's Senator Harry Bartow ("Beets") Hawes sailed from Manila for the U. S. via China. During his six-week visit to the islands Senator Hawes had united a great mass of Filipinos for immediate independence, whipped their enthusiasm for freedom to the highest pitch in years. It was now Secretary Hurley's mission to find deft ways...
...Jackets all lengths with some flaunting Victorian ruffled peplums and leg-of-mutton sleeves...
...year shock-haired Pilot Harry L. Russell flew a trimotored Ford into Ford airport near Detroit last week to win the Edsel Bryant Ford Trophy for reliability in the National Air Tour (TIME, July 20). His easy victory over a field of 14 gave the Ford company its second leg of the current trophy (three consecutive victories gives permanent possession). Only once in the 6,590-mi. tour was Pilot Russell pressed for leading position, and then it was by Pilot James H. Smart flying another Ford, which finished second. Smart nearly caught up with Russell when the leader became...
...have never played better tennis than in the singles against Richards. . . . Once I reached even terms I was always in command. . . . I believe . . . my crosscourt forehand to deep court . . . was most effective. . . . Richards had two bad falls, one at 0-5 in the last set. which injured his right leg . . . probably too late to affect the result...
Teamed together in the doubles, Wood & Shields lost their match to Henri Cochet and Jacques Brugnon the day after the singles semifinals. Shields, because he found his leg still hurt badly, then de faulted the singles to Wood. Wood thus became the youngest of all Wimbledon champions, the only man in Wimbledon's 54 years who has won without playing in the finals...