Milestones: Aug. 5, 1929

"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:

Alain Gerbault, French sportsman, arrived on his 30-foot sloop Firecrest in Le Havre amid whistles and cheers after a six-year cruise alone around the world. He learned that the French Government had made him an officer in the Legion of Honor. Voyager Gerbault immediately went to Paris to see the Davis Cup matches (see p. 56). Present there was Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen, now a tennis professional, whose refusal to marry M. Gerbault is supposed to...

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