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...Davis Cup history for the past nine years has taken the form of prodigious ballyhoo preceding a thrashing. This year the ballyhoo, as loud as usual, was briefer but the thrashing was identical. Rules limit each team to four men. Before the matches started, the U. S. selection committee picked Donald Budge and Wilmer Allison for the singles matches, passed over Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, who had beaten both in practice, chose Budge and Gene Mako as the U. S. doubles team. On the courts of the Germantown Cricket Club, where France won the Cup from...
...retired as a matchmaker, became Haynes's manager. Since then, Haynes has had 14 fights, won ten of them by knockouts. Joe Louis knocked out Primo Camera in six rounds. Haynes did it in three last March. On the ground that this performance was worth repeating with more ballyhoo, Haynes and Camera were rematched. Last week, after Haynes had been carefully studied by boxing experts, photographed with Champion Braddock feeling his muscles, pronounced better than Louis by famed Jack Johnson (who is jealous of the fighter who may become the second Negro heavyweight champion in ring history), Haynes...
With much ballyhoo, New York City's Municipal Art Committee last week opened its First National Exhibition of U. S. Art in Rockefeller Center's International Building. Arranged according to the artists' home States, some 700 paintings and 60 sculptures from 46 States, the District of Columbia and four territories hung on specially prepared walls of sea grass and plaster. For the preview dinner in Rockefeller Center's 65th story Rainbow Room, New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia rounded up a roomful of bigwigs, including New Jersey's Governor Harold Hoffman. Beefy Governor Hoffman...
With "the almost incredible circulation of books in the Soviet Union . . . before us as a glorious example," smart Publisher Victor Gollancz set out in London last week to assuage the appetites of literate Leftists regularly and at small cost. Launched with Mr. Gollancz' customary well-bred ballyhoo was the Left Book Club. To join, readers had only to pledge that they would buy once a month a cheap special edition of a radical or near-radical book which Victor Gollancz, Ltd. would send them. As usual, Victor Gollancz' competitors bit their quills, wished to blazes they had thought...
...sporting, TIME, to speak without knowledge of our "extravagant ballyhoo," nor is it anything but a dig to speak of our "tiny university's (fulltime students: 1,248) huge stadium." If your man was disappointed in the showing of the Eastern athletes, why didn't he say so? And incidentally his story of the Pennsylvania carnival was built around the performance of a sprint relay team from Texas and two boys from Ohio State, a member of the Western Conference. Small wonder, is there not, in being unable to write about any of your effete Easterners...