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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Frankie Parker came into my life," Mercer Beasley once said. He was referring then to his professional, not his private life. In that year he picked up a likely-looking, $2-per-week ball boy in a Milwaukee tennis club, put a racket in his hand, coached him in caution and style so thoroughly that the Polish-American tennist now stands No. 3 in U. S. rankings. Further, Coach Beasley took Frankie away from Widow Anna Pajkowski, who was busy supporting five children, adopted him, sent him to Lawrenceville, kept him well stocked with Mercer Beasley rackets and white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Love Set | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

That Pres Dillard is in trade (banking) is bad enough, but that he neglects his lady for business is worse. To chastise Pres, Julie wears red to the Mardi Gras' Olympus Ball, where unmarried girls traditionally wear white. To chastise Julie, Pres dances her feet off while proper and white-frocked New Orleans belles primly withdraw to the sidelines. That night Julie's good night to Pres is a slap fully as resounding as that which Scarlett O'Hara deals to Ashley Wilkes to give Gone With the Wind its real start. When Pres goes, Julie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Popeye the Magnificent | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

Olmsted, Burbank, Mazel, and Bissell, all won their matches for the Crimson. Carpentier, the only graduate to lose, assumed a handicap by consenting to use the slower English ball in his match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Racquetmen Defeat Visiting Cambridge Squad | 3/26/1938 | See Source »

Clark is a member of Winthrop House, Vice-President of the Pierian Sodality, and plays in the Band. Emerson of Eliot House played Junior Varsity Foot-ball and is captain of the Ski Team. Haseltine is chairman of the Leverett House Dance Committee, while Schwartz is Chairman of the Kirkland House Dance Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MARSHALS CHOOSE 6-MAN COMMITTEE FOR CLASS DANCE | 3/26/1938 | See Source »

Adolph W. Samborski '25, Director of Intramural Athletics, announced yesterday the formation of an inter-hall "Yard League" in soft-ball baseball for the Class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIX YARDLING INDOOR BASEBALL TEAMS WILL OPEN SEASON APRIL 15 | 3/26/1938 | See Source »

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