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...centre court at Roland Garros was entirely rebuilt this year, with a red clay surface even slower than before. This tended to lessen the celebrated speed of the No. 1 U. S. singles player. Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr. Combined with the fact that the U. S. team had not been impressive in the final round against Germany, it helped give France some of the confidence it had lost when Rene La Coste announced that he was too sick to play. French newspapers generously warned Vines not to eat pork and cucumber the day before he played Henri Cochet...
...Union Village, Gesford, Va., or Philosophy Professor James Bissett Pratt of Williams College. Nor was Vincent Bendix, famed aviation and automotive man, more than casually interested, despite the fact that in 1929 he gave Swedish Explorer Sven Hedin $135,000 to purchase two Buddhist temples, one to be rebuilt in Stockholm, the other in Chicago for next year's World's Fair...
...Laurence A. Higgins, and Dr. Ernst Lert, onetime Metropolitan Opera stage director (whose sister-in-law Vicki Baum was in Cleveland last week). This year they have organized a group called Laurence Productions Inc. "to present grand opera as they see it" in many cities. In Cleveland they rebuilt last year's stage, moved it closer to the grandstands. Still the largest outdoor stage ever built (50,000 sq. ft.), it is now the first unit opera stage, has the largest portable outdoor stage lighting equipment ever assembled. They built ten great ramps tilted toward the audience, broke these...
...Fraulein Antoine Strassman, German aviatrix, as "assistant purser" (because no passengers were allowed), the flying boat bent a safe zig-zag course from New York via Newfoundland and the Azores, the first jump of 1,100 mi. being the longest. Favored by wind and sky, her twelve rebuilt Curtiss engines roaring in perfect chorus, the DO-X touched Southampton on the fifth day, pointed for Lake Constance, Switzerland whence had begun her stumbling ten-month flight...
Whether or not a bigger & better war would, in the sum total, aid or harm U. S. business, it would be certain to bring about many an unexpected trade stimulus, many a sudden stoppage. Much of what would be destroyed would be rebuilt. Thus last week officers of the demolished Commercial Press, Shanghai, one of the largest and most remarkable shops in the world, employing 14,000 men, were planning to buy new equipment in the U. S., a fat order for hungry manufacturers. But only a mighty war would be likely to benefit the "war babies" of 1915: steels...