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...watched Budge nervously fumble through the first three sets, 7-5, 11-9, 6-8. In the fourth, he finally found his game and ran out the match, 6-1. Enraged when the umpire announced that the Allison von Cramm match would be postponed because of showers, the spectators threw cushions and teacups. Two days later, von Cramm won even more easily than anticipated...
...deeper worries over money, nagging delays and disappointments piled heavier burdens upon her. demoralized the shaken Fury household. There remained one last pain that Peter could cause her to break her heart. She tried to keep him from her estranged son Desmond, fearing Desmond's mockery. The strike threw them together, and Peter fell in love with his brother's wife. The strike ended, but not Mrs. Fury's agony. As Peter was being dragged off sullenly to sea she learned of his greatest deceit, beat him until she was pulled away. then, blinded by tears, struck...
...explain he had not seen was a small riot of Irish Communists along his route to Dublin Castle. The burden of the Communist hullabaloo was, with magnificent irrelevancy, "RELEASE TOM MOONEY." Ostensibly because the California Supreme Court has turned down Tom Mooney's appeals four times, the Irish Reds threw around leaflets saying, "Owsley does not represent the American people and therefore can not expect cead mille failte...
Last May, two Martinez, Calif. Mexicans named Anacleto Torres and Areo Cabrero, both section hands on the Southern Pacific Lines, set out to celebrate Memorial Day. In the course of the celebration, Anacleto shot Areo twice, bashed in his head with an ax, threw him into Carquinez Strait at the top of San Francisco Bay. Anacleto then confided the murder to two friends, who promptly informed the police. However, it proved to be one thing to arrest Anacleto and another to make him confess. For two weeks the moody mozo denied everything...
...Regis' ledgers from red to black, the one-time Brain Truster replied: "Lincoln once sold liquor in his general store, but I think my establishment is much classier." With a $5,000,000 mortgage on the property, Mr. Moley's good friend Vincent Astor year ago threw the St. Regis into receivership (TIME, June 18, 1934), last week bought it at auction...