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...engineered the Newport meeting with President Eisenhower in all good faith, worked tirelessly on Faubus. Said Mrs. Hays: "Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and find Brooks wide awake, thinking things out." Said Hays: "I felt like the sparrow that flew into the badminton game." Hays spent two hours with Faubus on Monday, four more on Tuesday, three on Wednesday and one on Thursday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARKANSAS: Case No. 3113 | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...only sports, but academic activity got a boost in 1953 with the construction of the athletic center. Utility rooms with great window walls alternately house fencing, modern dance, half-finished paintings, or badminton...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: A School of Quality Fights a Stereotype | 5/10/1956 | See Source »

When the H.A.A. first emphasized its slogan, "Athletics For All", in the mid-thirties, and Badminton, Basketball and Polo were all minor sports, a new athletic team began and ended one of the most incredible careers in the University's athletic history...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Intercollegiate Boxing Used to Be Popular | 2/24/1956 | See Source »

Students who have fulfilled all physical standards can choose between a long list of inter-collegiate or intramural sports, or take classes in such improbable courses as tumbling, jui, jitsu, handball, badminton, polo, golf, and many others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sixteen Floors of Athletics | 11/19/1955 | See Source »

...three scenes, nevertheless, the film abandons plot and sophistication, descends to low comedy, and becomes hilarious. Alec Guinness shines at these times, particularly where he tries youthfully to retrieve a lost badminton bird and ends up with the net tangled about his legs and feathers in his teeth. Though not exceptional for a Guinness picture, in such spots To Paris, With Love, rises above routine comedy...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: To Paris, With Love | 4/27/1955 | See Source »

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