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Patient, painstaking Alfred David Lenz dropped dead in the streets of Havana in 1926, of heart failure brought on by malaria and long breathing of acid fumes. "I want to leave my bones where they won't be worried about," he said. "They won't even make good billiard balls." Last week the National Sculpture Society held an important meeting in New York. Entrusted to it for the free use of all sculptors were all the secret methods and formulae by which Alfred Lenz revived a lost art of bronze casting and earned the title 20 years...
...Wenching and 255 other able ping-pong players last week assembled in Manhattan for the second annual U. S. championship. The matches were played in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. Among the 1,000 spectators was Bridge Expert Sidney Lenz, President of the American Ping-Pong Association, who 30 years ago introduced the full-hand grip, now used by almost all ping-pong players. Happily watching the matches from a lavish box was George Swinnerton Parker of Boston, decorated by a white goatee and a pique evening waistcoat. He had donated the Parker cup, to be engraved...
...that he has won more contract championships than anyone else; that last fortnight David Burnstine dedicated a book (One-Over-One?Walter J. Black, Inc., $1), in which he explained the Four Horsemen's bidding systems, to "P. Hal Sims . . . Master card player of the world. . . ." To Sidney Lenz and Harold S. ("Mike") Vanderbilt, who played in a few tournaments last year, and a dozen others, Shepard Barclay last week gave "honorable mention...
Irving Trust Co. faced its funny new task with equanimity last week, announced that the magazine would continue publication under its present board of funnymen, including Drama Critic George Jean Nathan, Bridge Expert Sydney Lenz. With their help Irving Trust hopes to pull Judge out of receivership...
...Culbertson returned to Manhattan from a holiday in Havana, following his bridge victory over Sidney S. Lenz, to announce that he had just invested "every cent" of his money in U. S. stocks. Said he: "I am making the biggest bet of my life. . . . My bid actually is that we turn the second corner in about two months...