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Some 40 years ago a Manhattan youngster named Walter Merrill Hall used to run from his front yard to the Hamilton Grange Tennis Club next door and peep through the fence at his father playing there. At 13 he learned to play. At 15, Walter Merrill Hall quit school, went to work as a Wall Street runner to help support his mother and grandmother. But every morning, every evening he practiced his tennis, developed a powerful forehand drive, a smashing backhand "down the line." At 24, Walter Merrill Hall was national clay court doubles champion. At 30 he came within...
...whiskey men-Seton Porter of National Distillers with more than 50% of all U. S. whiskey in his saddle bags; Lewis Rosenstiel of Schenley Distillers with about 25% and the cream of the imported liquor agencies; the Thompson family with their huge distillery at Owensboro, Ky.; Emil Schwarzhaupt who quit National Distillers to branch out for himself in Bernheim Distilling Co. and who last week shouldered forward by purchasing at government auction 24,000 cases of liquor seized on the high seas; Harry C. Hatch who had come down from Canada to build a huge distillery in Peoria...
...overawed, were shown into the President's office last week. Some 20,000 of their colleagues were still on strike, in spite of the President's conference with their employers week before which guaranteed them the "checkoff" system an< union recognitions (TIME, Nov. 6). Before they quit striking, they wanted to be sure that the forthcoming election to select their representatives would be run on the square, that the operators would introduce no "ringers." General Johnson and President Roosevelt agreed to send National Labor Board representatives to Pennsylvania at once to supervise the voting from start to finish...
...Just as improbable was Dempsey's behavior as referee at a heavyweight wrestling bout last week in Alexandria, La. When one of the combatants, Marshall Blackstock, would not quit choking and slugging his opponent, Referee Dempsey stopped him with a right jab that laid open his face...
...Treasury is now plunging $10,000,000 further into the red every month. With China's biggest bankers in a towering rage and with Chinese soldiers always for hire cheap, scores of government officials decided that some sort of coup against Generalissimo Chiang might be attempted, hastily quit their offices and hid at home...