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...took the first two sets, with Vines playing badly. Vines and Gledhill won the next two, when Shields was shaky. Finally, shrewd little Parker pulled his game to its peak and helped his partner run out five games in a row for the last set and the most startling upset of the tournament...
...operating subsidiaries of merger-born Socony-Vacuum Corp). Socony is a Chinese institution. Socony has sold kerosene in China for more than 50 years.* Socony's agents are venerated in the community. Socony's ships thoughtfully slow down so that their wash will not upset frail sampans bound down river...
...head in a perfectly decent self-respecting way. . . ." Said Marie Dressier when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer offered to make her a star after her performance in Anna Christie: "They make you a star and then you starve. All I want is a small part to come in and upset the plot...
...Winchell. Smack went Jolson's fist and down went Winchell. Smack went Jolson's other fist and down went Wrinchell again. After other spectators, including a woman who wielded her sharp-heeled slipper, had driven Jolson off, word buzzed through the excited audience that Ruby Keeler was upset because Winchell's new scenario, Broadway Through a Keyhole, was supposedly based on her career. (She used to tap-dance in the night club of the late Larry Fay, Manhattan gangster slain last winter.) Post-bellum comment...
...leaders dared from Socialistic schemes which formed at first one of their great electioneering points. Fortnight ago Herr Hitler began the turn by declaring, "We must not depose a businessman if he is efficient just because he is not yet a Nazi. . . . Our program . . . does not oblige us to upset everything like fools!" Last week came action to set top side up the hundreds of German businesses which have been upset by forcing into their executive offices Nazi busybodies, called "commissars," with unspecified authority...