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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain Johnny Harkness, most powerfully built matman, kept his slate clean until he was crushed by Ross Shaffer of Penn State in February. Inventive, a dynamic grappler he has the best chance of al to chalk up an undefeated record. In the 165-1b. class Bill Daughaday, a Sophomore with an excellent Freshman record, is fighting it out with Albert Harkness '38, the captain's brother. With plenty of rough edges to smooth out, Daughaday, one of the two Yardling victors at New Haven, will probably win the position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/19/1937 | See Source »

...downs. This has not been due much to fluctuations in its playing ability as to the type of attack they employ. Defensively, the eleven has maintained a high average but offensively they have appeared different in almost every game. The reason for this is that the offense is built largely on deception, and as far as the ground-gained statistics at least are concerned, its success has varied with the opponents gullibility to this deception...

Author: By Donald B. Straus, | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/16/1937 | See Source »

Unveiled last week in Springfield, Mass., was a homebuilt projector which cost less than $12,000. It was built by able, earnest Frank Korkosz, technician of Springfield's Museum of Natural History. Not dumbbell-shaped but spherical, the Korkosz instrument projects on a 40-ft. (diameter) hemispherical ceiling 7,150 of the naked eye and borderline stars visible in every direction from earth. Astronomers did not quite share Mr. Korkosz' belief that his machine works as well or nearly as well as a Zeiss instrument but they seemed to feel that any reasonably good projector is better than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Homemade Sky | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...Boston, a grand show. His father thought otherwise, declined an opportunity to invest in it. failed to share in the $1,000,000 the operetta reputedly earned. The theatre finally claimed him in 1004, first Boston's Castle Square, then Manhattan's ambitious, repertory New Theatre. He built the Little and Booth Theatres, headed a producers' committee to purge the stage of filth, helped rescue Gilbert and Sullivan operetta from the hands of school children and restore it to its place as adult entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 15, 1937 | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...camp meetings, Chain gangs, political rallies; of a huge-columned mansion porch, with a poor-white woman and her child sitting on one of the broad stone steps. "I don't know what ever happened to the family that built this house before the War. A lot of families live here now. My husband and me moved in and get two rooms for five dollars a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Speaking Likenesses | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

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