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...Walking into the county clerk's office in Manhattan, Senor Firpo through an interpreter made known that he wished to become an American citizen. His application carried the information that he is 28 years old, white, 6 ft. 2?? in. tall, 215 pounds in weight, hair and eyes brown. In answer to the question " Are you married? " he drew a line. It was reliably reported that he did not know that in order to become an American citizen he would have to renounce his Argentine citizenship. He will let his application lapse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boxing | 10/8/1923 | See Source »

...Doubles. The Englishwomen finally poked their heads above the tidal wave of defeat which has drenched their invading aspirations. Miss Kathleen McKane and Mrs. B. C. Covell won the national doubles championship by steadiness and clockwork team play from Miss Eleanor Goss and Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman. Score: 2???6, 6?2, 6?1. Of singular interest during the match was the pronounced partisanship of the American audience for the English players...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: Aug. 27, 1923 | 8/27/1923 | See Source »

...blocks of the Druidical circle at Stonehenge, England, must have been transported 180 miles from mountains in Pembrokeshire, the nearest location of similar rock, according to an announcement of Dr. H. H. Thomas, British petrographer. The average weight is 2?? tons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: With the Diggers | 7/9/1923 | See Source »

...2??% of the advertising of Japan, which cannot face the Shimbunkishi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Jun. 11, 1923 | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

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