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...save the very sophisticated. Last year's Champion Alice Marble, who was scheduled to meet Poland's hefty Jadwiga ("Jaja") Jedrzejowska in the final, was instead put out in the quarter-finals by Dorothy May Bundy. Chubby Miss Bundy, who resembles her famed tennis-playing mother May Sutton (U. S. champion 1904, and Wimbledon champion 1905, 1907), more than her rotund and equally famed, tennis-playing father Tom (U. S. doubles champion with Maurice Mclaughlin in 1912, 1913, 1914), was promptly put out (6-2, 6-3) in the semi-finals by Chile's Anita Lizana...
...same sort of match, twinkle-toed Sarah Palfrey Fabyan in her well-bred fashion beat left-handed Margot Lumb, English squash racquets champion. For the last doubles match Captain Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, the Cup's sturdy donor who still: plays capable tennis herself, substituted chubby Dorothy May Sutton Bundy for Miss Jacobs, who had done enough for one day. Miss Bundy, daughter of onetime (1904) U. S. Champion May Sutton, squealed, giggled, sprawled, enjoyed herself so thoroughly in her first Wightman Cup match that she and Marjorie Gladman Van Ryn lost to Miss Stammers & Freda James...
...White House Executive Offices in Washington, newshawks stopped chatty, Virginia-born Viscountess Astor, who had just come from a talk with the President, and asked for a "few choice words" on the abdication and marriage of the Duke of Windsor. Chatted the longtime Member of Parliament from Sutton Division, Plymouth: "They'll be very few and very choice, because I'm a politician...
...furniture department when the store detective chases her for doughnut stealing, has begun a romance with a sheet music salesman, Terry Keith (Johnny Downs). Obstacles to their coalition and therefore to Tweep's and Dinwiddy's are: 1) efforts of Store Manager Truelove Spencer (Grady Sutton) to annex the girl himself; 2) Miss Tweep's cynical attitude toward astrology; 3) Dinwiddy's inability to establish his identity when arrested, drunk, for breaking up the sporting goods department with a shotgun. Love and astrology are finally correlated at a store party, assisted by music from Phil Harris...
Superintendents. Although exhibitors may help pay the bills, superintendents value their convention as one time in the year when they are free to speak up without cocking a cautious eye at their school boards. Atlanta's Superintendent Willis A. Sutton complained: "The problem of continuing a progressive program, and at the same time being able to continue in office, constitutes one of the gravest dangers to a Superintendent of Schools. The displacement of men in high positions at the strategic centres of our country has been the shame of education in the past decade." Superintendent Sutton had to mention...