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Last fortnight Tulane's Captain Felts was ruled ineligible because he played professional baseball before going to college. Last week there were rumors that Tennessee's bowlegged halfbreed Indian Halfback Beattie Feathers had played more baseball last summer than Southern Conference rules allow. Against Duke, Feathers scored both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 7, 1932 | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

At Jones Beach. A towheaded girl with a little boy's face and the torso of a minnow, 15-year-old Katherine Rawls of Miami Beach, Fla., surprised everyone a year ago by winning the national breast stroke championship at 220 yd. Last week in the Olympic Swimming Trials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Olympic Trials | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

† Named by his owner. William Woodward, for Sir Thomas Ashley Sparks, U. S. resident director of the Cunard Line. Mr. Woodward has also a horse Sir Andrew, named for one of his blackest, most bowlegged stablemen.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Sep. 14, 1931 | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

Bowlegged little Baron Passfield was present during the harangue. Unruffled, foxy, he made a remarkable excuse. He said that Roman Catholic feeling in Malta runs so high that he did not want to receive Baron Strickland without also receiving Roman Catholic dignitaries, and he did not want to receive them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Crown Crisis | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

"Papist!" stormed leading French news-organs of the Left last week at brilliant, bowlegged little General Max Weygand. He is as good a Roman Catholic as was his patron Marshal Ferdinand Foch who used to speak of him as "Max, my spiritual son." Last week as the climax of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: New Generalissimo | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

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