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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saturday, Foster will journey to New York, together with the top men from Yale and Princeton, to compete in the annual Harry Cowles tournament, which attracts some of the highest-ranking squash players in the land. Cowles, often termed the "Babe Ruth of squash," was Barnaby's predecessor in the Crimson coaching berth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 1/13/1948 | See Source »

Other smokers in the past have borne such renowned names as Frank Fay. Eva Le Galhenne, Hildegarde, and Babe Ruth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stars and Bars Will Sparkle Through Freshman Smoker | 12/3/1947 | See Source »

Back in Rio last week, silver-maned Mangabeira, a kindly, top-heavy-looking politician with shoulders like Joe Louis' and legs like Babe Ruth's, found himself the most important man in the country. He was right in his element. For months he had talked coalition; now he had a chance to do something about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Man of the Hour | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

Appalled by his parents' Scotch-Irish Presbyterianism, he soaked up the religious mysticism of Emanuel Sweden-borg.-Believing that God was within man, he was scornful. of the traditional figure of Jehovah: "Any mother who suckles her babe upon her own breast, any bitch in fact who litters her periodical brood of pups, presents to my imagination a vastly nearer and sweeter Divine charm. . . . Against this lurid power-half-pedagogue, half-policeman, but wholly imbecile in both aspects-I . . . raise my gleeful fist, I lift my scornful foot." This kind of "elegant Billingsgate," as his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Family of Minds | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

Cookie Lavagetto's double was one for the history books, to put beside Mickey Owen's disastrous dropped-third-strike in 1941, or Babe Ruth's homer in the 1932 Series. It broke up the game. Little noticed in the Dodger's victory dance around home plate, Pitcher Bill Bevens, a forgotten man, trudged toward the dugout with bowed head and tears in his eyes. He had pitched a one-hitter-and lost the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Nothing Like It | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

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