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...Wimbledon by greeting the Queen with a wave of his racket. Last week, more formal, he bowed from the waist. Before the interruption, Budge had won the first set, 6-3, taking the last five games in a row. After it, with almost unplayable serves and drives that made chalk fly from the corners of his opponent's court, he took the second set, 6-4, after von Cramm had had a lead of 4-3. When von Cramm broke Budge's service from 40-love in the second game of the third set, it was his last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Wimbledon | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

...rushed to aid one woman staggering along with her tongue out. She was only becoming first across with tongue out. Two postmen took their lunch hour to be first mail-carriers across. Other firsts: the man who pushed a pill box with his nose, the girl who walked the chalk line in the centre, the boy who walked backward the whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Gate Party | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

With Ingalls the only Varsity twirler to chalk up a victory this season and with league games scheduled Friday and Saturday against Cornell and Dartmouth, Mitchell is making every effort to uncover a possible winner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY FACES BROWN WITH SHEAN ON MOUND | 5/11/1937 | See Source »

Coach Fred Mitchell's ace hurler, Ed Ingalls, kept the opposition's 13 hits well scattered with the exception of the disastrous fourth inning, when St. John's capitalized on four solid blows and two errors to chalk up six runs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARKNESS HALTS TIE GAME WITH ST. JOHN'S | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...Schwab laughed. But loyal President Eugene Grace grew white as chalk. Eyes flashing, fist clenched, he said quietly: "Mr. Schwab has not outlived his usefulness to this corporation. His retirement would be a grave mistake." He stalked menacingly toward Stockholders Gilbert & Coshland, was restrained from snoot-punching by fellow officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Personnel: Apr. 26, 1937 | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

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