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Individual donations, however, were sometimes carefully earmarked, vaguely as in the case of five dollars for "some Russian institution" and more specific choices such as $1.67 to Heidelberg "to be used for dueling swords." One benefactor specified Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University WSSF Drive Nets $16,500 | 5/18/1948 | See Source »

Cried Communist Kim: "Koreans will not, and cannot leave our destiny to American imperialists and their hirelings, the U.N. Commission." Then he made the usual obeisance: "Long live the Soviet army and the Soviet people and their great leader, Comrade Stalin, benefactor and liberator of the Korean nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Portent | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...Benefactor No. 2 was Dick Skeen, one of the shrewdest teaching pros in the business. For $25 down and $5 a month, he began teaching young Jake how to swing a tennis racket. Each day, the youngster spent three hours on trolley cars, traveling the 18 miles between his home and Skeen's Beverly Hills court. Gradually his strokes took on a Skeen sheen. At 15, Jake easily beat Alice Marble, who was then women's singles champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Advantage Kramer | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...next step was getting somebody tougher to play against. Perry Jones got Ellsworth Vines, ex-amateur champion turned pro, the hardest hitter tennis had ever seen. Ellie Vines, Benefactor No. 3, agreed to play young Jake three times a week for five months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Advantage Kramer | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Vines taught him strokes, but he did not teach him the "big game." Jake figured that out himself-along with such lesser notions as eating football-style steaks before big matches and drinking warm tea between sets as energy boosters. Finally, along came Benefactor No. 4, a brilliant automotive engineer named Clifton Roche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Advantage Kramer | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

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