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Each morning last week a poet talked for an hour, selected experts discussed, then whom the spirit moved put in his oar. Meals were simple, cheap. Evening diversions: music and charades of international complexity. Sports were badminton and swimming. Girl undergraduates and WAVES in training goggled and giggled at bewhiskered foreigners' aquatic style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Burgundy in Holyoke | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...Tennis and badminton racket strings, fishing lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nylon for Everything | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...picnic had everything. Two mixed softball games, badminton, tennis matches, singing, and just sitting around on the porch and giving with "scuttlebutt." The boys and girls had supper, too, served by the Radcliffe's dining service, with coats split fifty-fifty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAVES and NTS Give Out At Picnic on S. S. Briggs | 7/20/1943 | See Source »

...their employes. But the real California touch was applied last week by Rohr Aircraft Corp. (plane parts) at Chula Vista. For its 8,000-odd employes, Rohr took a five-year lease on the swank $250,000 San Diego Country Club, with 158 acres of golf, tennis, Softball, croquet, badminton, horseback-riding, picnicking and bar-rooming. To accommodate all three Rohr shifts, the club will operate 24 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Night & Day | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

Three times a week finds us going all out for softball, tennis, or badminton--and planning for the time when Company A plays B--and wins...

Author: By Ensign BERNICE Blum, | Title: Creating A Ripple | 7/1/1943 | See Source »

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