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Hard-Headed. In Champaign, Ill., John L. Franklin had given up trying to raise asparagus after three years, built an asphalt drive across the patch, this spring discovered sprouts cracking through the pavement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 24, 1948 | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

Tractors and chains on heavy snow-clearing trucks have ripped up streets everywhere. Although 500 tons of asphalt patch have already been poured on Cambridge streets, this is far short from the actual needs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Still Plowing Winter's Snows at Cost of $800,000 | 2/4/1948 | See Source »

...courts behind Dillon Field House will be clay, and 15 are asphalt. In addition, by the middle of October, 15 of the old Business School courts will be resurfaced with asphalt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 25 New Tennis Courts Near Completion; Will Lift Former Crowding | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...courts behind Dillon Field House will be clay, and 15 are asphalt. In addition, by the middle of October, 14 of the old Business School courts will be resurfaced with asphalt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Courts Near Completion | 9/18/1947 | See Source »

...twelve-year-old Benjamin Sklar, son of Russian-born parents. Ben had borrowed the well-worn agate shooter of the Pittsburgh kid who won the crown two years ago. He had also prepared for Wildwood's fast rings by doing most of his marble-shooting on an asphalt tennis court near his home on Winterburn Avenue. His secret: "Just roll it into the ring and put a little spin on it, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Deadeyes at Wildwood | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

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