Word: longwood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Herbert Driscoll and Thomas Wheelan apprehended Mims Whose hands were bound by his coat belt. They prevented his leap and called the Cambridge police who took the instructor to the Longwood Street psychopathic wards...
Harvard has always rendered small services to the intelligentsia of the Metropolitan District, but has had little to offer the poorer classes. There have been lectures on Emerson for the good ladies of Brattle Street and lectures on babies for enterprising mothers within walking distance of Longwood Avenue. Yet, as Cambridge has become industrialized, whole generations have grown up, surrounded, bewildered, flaunted by the organization that is Harvard. They have been ignorant of the Oversoul and too busy to visit the Medical School; Harvard has offered them little and their children nothing. Yet these thousands of underprivileged youngsters have kept...
Last week, while Don Budge was further demonstrating his invincibility by breezing through the Newport Invitation tournament in his first appearance in singles competition on U. S. courts this summer, the Australian Davis Cuppers (Quist & Bromwich) were at Longwood-proving their proficiency by taking all five matches from the German team of Henner Henkel & Georg von Metaxa (an Austrian acquired by anschluss to replace imprisoned Baron Gottfried von Cramm). After losing their third straight match, the German team received a cable from the German Tennis Federation "requesting" them to discontinue further competition in the U. S., return home...
Among the spectators at Longwood was 20-year-old Robert Riggs, Los Angeles minister's son, who within two years has zoomed from nowhere to second ranking U. S. tennist. He had passed up the Newport tournament, last major tune-up before the U. S. championships, in order to scout the Australians. For cocky young Bobby Riggs, who has won 14 U. S. tournaments this year, was smarting under Don Budge's recent innuendo (that, if he were chosen for the Davis Cup team, he would probably lose both his singles matches...
November 2, Longwood Towers Hotel, Brookline; December 4, Pomfret School, Pomfret Connecticut; December 7, Congregational Church, Cambridge; December 12, Broadcast...